Hodgkins Disease Symptoms
Published on Apr 08 2010, in the categories: Hodgkins Disease Symptoms
Hodgkin’s disease symptoms
Onset is typically in symptomatic or asymptomatic (one or more lymph nodes to swell in volume, although not painful), which may be associated with fever over 38 ° without signs of infection, profuse night sweats, weight loss without apparent cause (more than 10% of initial body weight within 6 months) and sometimes itchy. Initial symptoms can vary, depending on the nodal primitively affected, which generally corresponds to the lateral cervical or supra clavicular lymph nodes.
These signs may be accompanied by anemia, increased susceptibility to infections (one of the characteristics of Hodgkin's disease is, in fact, early impaired cellular immunity), enlargement of superficial lymph nodes (in addition to lateral cervical and supra clavicular, axillary and inguinal) and deep (intrathoracic, intra-abdominal) and signs caused by the person of organs such as spleen, liver, bone marrow, skeleton, skin. Sometimes the ingestion of an alcoholic beverage causes pain.
Cause of Hodgkin’s disease
Solid tumors of the lymphatic system, whose origin is still unknown. The disease affects all ages, but with two incidence peaks: one between 15 and 35 years, another after 50. Genetic and environmental factors may be associated with the development of malignant cells, but have not yet been documented specific cytogenetic or chromosomal abnormalities. Have also been implicated infectious agents, chronic exposure to toxic substances (benzene or anticonvulsant therapy), but again without reaching a definitive conclusion.
Recommended Therapy for Hodgkin’s disease
The disease is diagnosed by histological examination by light microscopy of pathological material, mostly a lymph node biopsy taken (the pathognomonic finding is of special cells, called Reed-Sternberg cells, intermingled with lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages and granulocytes). To assess the prevalence of the disease through laboratory tests and instrumental techniques (X rays, CT scans, ultrasound, more rarely, and in selected cases, we appeal to lymphography, bone marrow biopsy, laparoscopy and laparotomy).
This staging procedure is extremely important because it influences the prognosis and therapeutic choice. Currently, Hodgkin's disease is classified into four stages, according to the interest of one or more lymph nodes of regions above or below the diaphragm, the impairment of the spleen and other organs. Hodgkin's disease is treated with chemotherapy (possibly combined with radiotherapy, including total-body)): complete healing is achieved in a very high percentage of cases (70%). It has become common procedure where - after the administration of chemo + radiotherapy schedules and protocols associated with the second encoded - the bone marrow transplant. This may be followed by supportive therapy with growth factors (granulocyte macrophage, for example) or interleukin.
Hodgkin’s disease symptoms
- Abdominal distension
- Swelling of the abdomen
- Abdominal Payment
- Breathlessness
- Fatigue
- Eating Disorders
- Anorexia
- Decreased appetite
- Appetite disorders
- Arthritis
-Asphyxiation
- Constipation
- Bad Heart
- Weakness
- Disorders of defecation
- Diaphoresis
- Weight Loss
- Dysentery
- Exhaustibility
- Hyperthermia
- Irritation
- Enlarged lymph nodes
- Flatulence
- Bone pain
- Pallor
- Water in the belly
- Air in the stomach
Onset is typically in symptomatic or asymptomatic (one or more lymph nodes to swell in volume, although not painful), which may be associated with fever over 38 ° without signs of infection, profuse night sweats, weight loss without apparent cause (more than 10% of initial body weight within 6 months) and sometimes itchy. Initial symptoms can vary, depending on the nodal primitively affected, which generally corresponds to the lateral cervical or supra clavicular lymph nodes.
These signs may be accompanied by anemia, increased susceptibility to infections (one of the characteristics of Hodgkin's disease is, in fact, early impaired cellular immunity), enlargement of superficial lymph nodes (in addition to lateral cervical and supra clavicular, axillary and inguinal) and deep (intrathoracic, intra-abdominal) and signs caused by the person of organs such as spleen, liver, bone marrow, skeleton, skin. Sometimes the ingestion of an alcoholic beverage causes pain.
Cause of Hodgkin’s disease
Solid tumors of the lymphatic system, whose origin is still unknown. The disease affects all ages, but with two incidence peaks: one between 15 and 35 years, another after 50. Genetic and environmental factors may be associated with the development of malignant cells, but have not yet been documented specific cytogenetic or chromosomal abnormalities. Have also been implicated infectious agents, chronic exposure to toxic substances (benzene or anticonvulsant therapy), but again without reaching a definitive conclusion.
Recommended Therapy for Hodgkin’s disease
The disease is diagnosed by histological examination by light microscopy of pathological material, mostly a lymph node biopsy taken (the pathognomonic finding is of special cells, called Reed-Sternberg cells, intermingled with lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages and granulocytes). To assess the prevalence of the disease through laboratory tests and instrumental techniques (X rays, CT scans, ultrasound, more rarely, and in selected cases, we appeal to lymphography, bone marrow biopsy, laparoscopy and laparotomy).
This staging procedure is extremely important because it influences the prognosis and therapeutic choice. Currently, Hodgkin's disease is classified into four stages, according to the interest of one or more lymph nodes of regions above or below the diaphragm, the impairment of the spleen and other organs. Hodgkin's disease is treated with chemotherapy (possibly combined with radiotherapy, including total-body)): complete healing is achieved in a very high percentage of cases (70%). It has become common procedure where - after the administration of chemo + radiotherapy schedules and protocols associated with the second encoded - the bone marrow transplant. This may be followed by supportive therapy with growth factors (granulocyte macrophage, for example) or interleukin.
Hodgkin’s disease symptoms
- Abdominal distension
- Swelling of the abdomen
- Abdominal Payment
- Breathlessness
- Fatigue
- Eating Disorders
- Anorexia
- Decreased appetite
- Appetite disorders
- Arthritis
-Asphyxiation
- Constipation
- Bad Heart
- Weakness
- Disorders of defecation
- Diaphoresis
- Weight Loss
- Dysentery
- Exhaustibility
- Hyperthermia
- Irritation
- Enlarged lymph nodes
- Flatulence
- Bone pain
- Pallor
- Water in the belly
- Air in the stomach
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