Cancer Hodgkin's Disease Lymph Tissue

Friday, June 29, 2012

Hodgkin's disease, lymph glands, a treatable form of cancer. The most common cancer, lymph node tissue.
Especially common in young men, a disease that affects the body's reticular and lymphatic tissues.
Reason: Hodgkin's disease, a type of white blood cells of the lymph tissue of the effects. Lymphocytes are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also along the armpit, groin, chest, stomach, liver and spleen, lymph glands (nodes) do form clusters. Proliferate and become enlarged lymph cells of Hodgkin's disease. First, a group of lymph nodes affected (mostly long), then the disease spreads to other lymph nodes, lymphatic system, and all goes well.
Symptoms of lymph glands in the neck, over time, as a painless swell. These are not soft, but the consistency of rubber, which can be moved easily, are in separate masses. As the disease progresses, other groups are also swollen lymph glands, and the patient, sometimes lasting up to ten days appear fiery circuits. Groups of swollen lymph nodes, blocks the work of the structures around them. For example, the glands surrounding the bronchi, the airways by the pressure, the patient can lead to shortness of breath, or will some parts of the lung. Swollen spleen, liver, and creates a sense of discomfort in the abdomen as a result of pressure on the nerves, pain or paralysis appears. In some rare cases, the patient, when drinking alcohol, which is swollen glands feel pain.
Treatment: radiation therapy is effective in a specific group meringue. Where widespread swelling, cytotoxic (cell, which is poison) drugs. The most commonly used drugs of this type, which is similar to the nitro-gen mustard mustard gas is "(nitrogen mustard). Other cytotoxics, vinblastine sulphate (vin-blast sulfate) and chlorambucil (chlorine-büsil) also may be tried. The disease is usually accompanied by anemia, and sometimes it may be so severe that the patient requires a blood transfusion. As the local pressure to prevent pain, or any organ, the surgical possible to eliminate.

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