The lymphoma of the "camouflage" is often misdiagnosed as a variety of cancers such as gastric cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer

Tumor growing in the stomach must be gastric cancer? What must be intestinal cancer in the intestine?

wrong! Intersection They may be lymphoma!

Lymphoma is a "camouflage master" who likes to run on other organs. It is often misdiagnosed as gastric cancer, lung cancer ovarian cancer, thymoma, pancreatic cancer, and even itching of the whole body.

Is lymphadenopathy lymphoma?

Patients often ask: "Do you, is the lymph nodes a tumor?"

If you want to know the answer to this question, let's get to know the lymph nodes first. Lymph nodes are an important immune organs in the human body. It is an oval or long strip structure, which is more than 0.5 cm in diameter, and generally does not exceed 1 cm. Generally, the whole body is distributed in groups, mostly concentrated in the neck, clavicle, armpit and groin.

Normal people's shallow lymph nodes are very small, soft in texture, active, tenderless, can be touched, deep lymph nodes need to be seen by image examination.

Liu Yanyan, deputy dean of Henan Cancer Hospital and director of the pathogenesis of lymph -mammary gland generals, said that lymphadenopathy is a alarm signal of the human body. There are two most common reasons:

☞ inflammation

Once inflammatory reactions occur, such as acute and chronic lymph inflammatory, lymph node tuberculosis, or reactive hyperplasia of lymph nodes, lymph nodes can be enlarged.

Most of these inflammatory lymph nodes are mostly unobstructed, and the cause can be fully recovered after removal.

Tumor

Including malignant tumors, such as lymphoma, lymphocytic leukemia, and other malignant tumors (such as lung cancer, gastric cancer, and breast cancer, etc. At this time, it's particularly careful.

Lymphoma of "good camouflage" and "will mess up"

Lymphoma is a malignant tumor that originated from lymph nodes and lymphatic tissues. In most cases, it occurs in lymph nodes, but it also originated from lymphatic tissue other than lymph nodes, such as gastrointestinal tract, bone or thyroid, head and neck, nasopharyngeal, etc.

In other words, lymphoma can occur in any part of the body, a tumor of "love chaos".

In China, the incidence of lymphoma is 4.75/100,000, which is equivalent to more than 4700 people being diagnosed with lymphoma each year, lower than European and American countries and Japan. The age of lymphoma is large, and different types of lymphoma have different people with different diseases. From children, adolescents, adults, and elderly people, they can happen. According to relevant statistics, the average age of 49.9 years of patients who died of malignant lymphoma in my country were 49.9 years, which was 58.2 years lower than that of the average disease and death of all malignant tumors.

In recent years, the incidence of lymphoma in my country has increased year by year. Lymphoma is divided into Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non -Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), but it can be further subdivided into dozens of pathological subtypes. Great difficulty. "There are many pathological types, symptoms of manifestations, and sensible people. This is also the main reason for lymphoma to be prone to misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis." Liu Yanyan said.

Differential lymphoma alert the characteristics of risk

Li Yufu, deputy director and chief physician of Henan Cancer Hospital, said that in fact, lymphoma also has dangerous characteristics, and you need to pay attention:

The manifestation of lymphoma is relatively hidden, and it is not easy to detect. Most of the symptoms have reached the middle and late stages. Although it has the name of "malignant", lymphoma is not irreversible, and more than half of patients may cure, while Hodgkin lymphoma can be cured by about 80%to 85%. Even if it is not cured, many lymphoma patients can survive for a long time through effective treatment. Therefore, lymphoma patients must have confidence and determination to overcome the disease and actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment.

Scientific prevention away from lymphoma

Zhou Keshu, deputy director and chief physician of Henan Cancer Hospital, said that the following 5 points should be done to prevent lymphoma:

Learn to relieve stress

Modern people's fast -paced, high -pressure life and working methods, the spirit has been in a state of anxiety and depression for a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a good mentality to cope with stress, learn to relieve and release stress, understand the combination of work and rest, and avoid excessive fatigue.

Diet should be reasonable

Change bad eating habits, such as excessive eating junk food, long -term smoking, drinking, often eating salty and spicy foods, eating overheat and cold, expired and deteriorating foods.

Maintain a good habit of living

As the pace of life accelerates, often irregular diet and bad living habits, over time, it causes the body's immune function to decrease.

take more exercise

Appropriate physical exercise can enhance immunity and accelerate metabolism.

Avoid radiation

If the human body is close to the radiation object for a long time, lymphoma is likely to induce. In life, try to avoid radiation sources.

Source: Henan Cancer Hospital

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