HODGKIN DISEASE

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HODGKIN DISEASE

Disease of Hodgkin

A specific type of cancer of the white cells of the blood that dwell in the lymphatic glands (linfoma).

Sex

More frequent in men.

Age

It presents/displays two tips of incidence, in young adults and people of age.

Complications

Infections.

Consumption by the disease.

Prognosis

According to estadío.

In the located disease, rates of treatment of more are obtained of 80 %.

In the generalized disease, s obtains the treatment in more than half of the cases.

The cured patients suffer more frequency of other cancers that the general population, after the years.

Diagnosis and treatment

DIAGNOSIS:

The diagnosis is made by means of the taking of a sample (great) of a thickened ganglion, habitually by means of its surgical extirpation.

After confirming the diagnosis, it is come to the study of the extension of the disease ("estadiaje"), by means of imaginería (X-rayses, T.A.C., R.M.N. or gammagrafía), and even opening of the abdomen (exploratory laparotomía), since it is very important, facing the treatment, knowledge exactly its extension.

TREATMENT:

The treatment is basically doctor, being used, according to the extension of the disease, x-ray and/or chemotherapy.

General measures

Take the most normal life that it can.

Medication

Aside from the chemotherapy protocols that can be of application, his doctor him can prescribe medicines for the symptoms, like paracetamol for the fever, antivomiting for you feel nauseous them produced by the vitaminic treatment, supplements, etc.

Activity

Manténgase all active it that can.

Diet

It is recommended that she is rich in proteinas and slightly hypercaloric.

It is recommended to maintain a water ingestion high.

Factors of risk

Relatives with the disease.

Diseases autoinmunes or immunodeficiencies.

Prevention

Measures are not known to prevent it.

Causes

Strangers, some data epidemiologists orient towards an infectious agent (not known) in those of presentation in young adults.

Signs and symptoms

It appears like a thickening of the lymphatic gánglios of a zone of the body (half of the cases in the neck or the nape of the neck). These ganglia are:

Duros,

Not adhered to surrounding weaves e

painless.

Signs derived from the location of the ganglia can appear, like cough or hipo (affectation of the mediastínicos ganglia).

Loss of weight.

In almost a quarter of constitutional the denominated cases they appear "sóntomas": Low fever,

Nocturnal sweats,

Fatigue and general malaise,

Picor (in one of each ten patients).

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