Hodgkin lymphoma

Hodgkin's lymphoma, also known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma first described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832. Clinically, Hodgkin's lymphoma characterized by the spread of the disease through one lymph node group to the other and with the development of B symptoms with a disease that has been greatly developed. In pathology, the disease is characterized by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Hodgkin lymphoma is one of the first cancers, which can be cured by radiation. Later Hodgkin's lymphoma is one of the first time can be cured by combination chemotherapy. Average about 93% healing, making this disease one of the most curable cancers.

Lymphoma

Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that occurs when B or T lymphocytes, the white blood cells that keep the immune system, become abnormally divide more rapidly than normal cells or living longer than usual. Lymphoma can arise in various parts of the body, such as lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow, blood, or other organs, which will eventually form tumors, which grow and take up space in the surrounding tissues and organs, thereby stopping the intake of oxygen and nutrients to tissues or the organ.

Lymphoma can be treated with chemotherapy and sometimes radiotherapy or bone marrow transplantation, and recovery depends on the histology, type, and stage of disease. The cancer cells usually appear in the lymph nodes, which can also affect other organs such as the skin, brain, and bone (extra nodal lymphoma). Lymphoma closely related to leukemia, which also appears in lymphocytes, but only in the blood and bone marrow, and usually do not form static tumors. There are many types of lymphoma, and lymphoma is one of hematological diseases.