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Lymphomas hodgkiniens or not hodgkiniens: what prognosis?

Lymphoma hodgkiniens: very good prognosis
The prognosis of disease Hodgkin or Hodgkin lymphoma is now good, even very good. In the localized forms (stages I and II of Ann Arbor), 95% of patients can be cured. In forms more severe (stage III and IV), healing (prudence, often referred to as "rémission chronique" ") is obtained in 70% of cases. Classification in stages gives an indication of the prognosis for lymphoma, but today we know other factors that can guide the prognosis.

Lymphomas not hodgkiniens: more or less aggressive cancers
The prognosis of a non Hodgkin Lymphoma hard differs from one patient to another and from one type of lymphoma to another. Lymphomas so-called "de high malignite" (diffuse large cell lymphomas) intensive treatment, but heal in about 70% of cases. " The factors that influence the prognosis are:

the stadium,
infiltration outside the lymph nodes.
the age,
the performance index of the patient (scale to assess the physical condition).
On the other hand, no hodgkiniens of low malignancy lymphomas, such as follicular Lymphoma, are more difficult to treat. They are called "indolents" because they do not threaten life in the short term, but often require repeated treatments. "

TREATMENT
1. treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma
2. treatment of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
3. stem cell transplant: how and what?
Treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma
Chemotherapy
In hodgkiniens lymphomas, chemotherapy alone today gives very good results. If the hair loss and fatigue are still part of the side effects, nausea and vomiting are becoming increasingly rare. There are indeed today very effective treatments against this type of symptoms. In addition, currently, many schemas of chemotherapy no longer sterility

Picking and freezing sperm or ovaries
Whenever necessary, will be however a (picking and freezing) sperm cryopreservation in the young man and, insofar as possible, in a cryopreservation of the ovaries in women in age to conceive children. Radiation therapy may also be necessary. Because of its side effects long term, doctors are however used in some cases.