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Hodgkin's Disease Lymphoma

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Stages

Hodgkin’s disease develops through 4 major stages which can be divided in three types which include: type A – stage without symptoms being present, type B – stage with certain symptoms being present, like loss of more than 10% of body weight over the previous 6 months, fever or night sweats without any obvious causes, and type E – stage when the disease spreads locally from a lymph node to a nearby organ.

When the disease is in the first stage, only one lymph node area is affected or cancer occurs locally into adjacent tissue around lymph node. When the disease enters the second stage, two or more lymph node areas above the diaphragm are affected and the cancer spreads out from the lymph node area to the nearby tissue.

When the cancer progresses to the third stage, the disease affects lymph node areas on both sides of the diaphragm, and it is even possible that the cancer affects not just different lymph node areas, but have been extended to an area or organ adjacent to the lymph node and/or the spleen.

In the last stage, or the fourth stage, cancer has been affected one or more organs outside the lymphatic system, like the bone marrow or liver.

Article by Alina Morrow, MA
Medical Writer,
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