An 11 year old Lymphoma survivor, Joe Smales once said “I won’t give up until we’ve beaten blood cancers in children for good, because I don’t want any other kids to go through what I’ve been though. One day I even want to walk the North Pole” (1). Not only should blood cancer be cured for children, it should be cured for people of all ages. Lymphoma is a very serious type of cancer that is extremely common. This disease deserves endless amounts of research to be done, to find a cure to help these mass numbers of people who have it. Little is known about what causes Lymphoma, but what people do know is that it can affect people of all ages. Many people have heard of lymphoma but few are sure what it exactly is. Lymphoma is a type of blood
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It affects roughly 8,000 patients a year and out of these 8,000, 7,000 will be cured (7). It is named after Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, who first acknowledged the disease. How a doctor deciphers Hodgkin’s from non-Hodgkin is they look for the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells which are present in the biopsy of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and not non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Within Hodgkin’s disease there are 2 main subtypes, classic Hodgkin’s disease, and nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin’s disease. 95% of all Hodgkin diagnosis develop from Classic Hodgkin’s, while 5% of the cases are from Nodular lymphocyte predominate Hodgkin’s (2). Symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma mat not be very prevalent, and in many cases have gone unnoticed for a while. Someone with Hodgkin’s lymphoma may have painless swelling of the lymph nodes in your neck, arm pits or groin; this is typically the first thing people may notice, and it the most common symptom(5). 70% of all Hodgkin patients develop this symptoms and it does not go away, and will grow over time (6). They may also experience fatigue, night sweats, weight loss, and itching along with many other symptoms that could be associated with many other diseases …show more content…
Tumors develop through the lymphatic system from the white blood cells. There are many subgroups to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but the most common is B-cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma. Non-Hodgkin’s differs from Hodgkin’s because in a biopsy no Reed-Steinberg cells will be detected. Like Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has signs that are present with many other illness. These include painless swollen lymph nodes, unusual loss of weight, fever, stomach pain and swelling, and a cough (9). Just like Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nobody is exactly sure why our body starts to abundantly produce lymphocytes. In the healthy human body old lymphocytes die off, and your body than generates new ones. When you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma the lymphocytes continue to grow and reproduce without and dying off so this causes your lymph nodes to swell. This can begin with the B cells or it may begin the T cells, where this problem happens can determine how the doctor may treat you
It affects roughly 8,000 patients a year and out of these 8,000, 7,000 will be cured (7). It is named after Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, who first acknowledged the disease. How a doctor deciphers Hodgkin’s from non-Hodgkin is they look for the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells which are present in the biopsy of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and not non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Within Hodgkin’s disease there are 2 main subtypes, classic Hodgkin’s disease, and nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin’s disease. 95% of all Hodgkin diagnosis develop from Classic Hodgkin’s, while 5% of the cases are from Nodular lymphocyte predominate Hodgkin’s (2). Symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma mat not be very prevalent, and in many cases have gone unnoticed for a while. Someone with Hodgkin’s lymphoma may have painless swelling of the lymph nodes in your neck, arm pits or groin; this is typically the first thing people may notice, and it the most common symptom(5). 70% of all Hodgkin patients develop this symptoms and it does not go away, and will grow over time (6). They may also experience fatigue, night sweats, weight loss, and itching along with many other symptoms that could be associated with many other diseases …show more content…
Tumors develop through the lymphatic system from the white blood cells. There are many subgroups to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but the most common is B-cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma. Non-Hodgkin’s differs from Hodgkin’s because in a biopsy no Reed-Steinberg cells will be detected. Like Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has signs that are present with many other illness. These include painless swollen lymph nodes, unusual loss of weight, fever, stomach pain and swelling, and a cough (9). Just like Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nobody is exactly sure why our body starts to abundantly produce lymphocytes. In the healthy human body old lymphocytes die off, and your body than generates new ones. When you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma the lymphocytes continue to grow and reproduce without and dying off so this causes your lymph nodes to swell. This can begin with the B cells or it may begin the T cells, where this problem happens can determine how the doctor may treat you