4 early symptoms of lymphoma

Lymphoma is a malignant tumor originated from lymphopoietic system, which mainly manifests as painless lymph node enlargement, hepatosplenomegaly, and all tissues and organs of the body can be involved, accompanied by systemic symptoms such as fever, night sweats, emaciation and itching. Let’s understand the early symptoms of lymphoma: 1. Lymph node enlargement is painless and progressive in the neck or clavicle, besides the neck and clavicle, there are also lymph node enlargement in the armpit. The enlarged lymph nodes may adhere to each other and move, and may fuse into a mass, often involving the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. 2. Swollen lymph nodes may compress nerves and cause pain. Enlarged deep lymph nodes may compress adjacent organs, such as epidural masses leading to spinal cord compression; enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes may cause cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath, pulmonary atelectasis and superior vena cava compression; enlarged retroperitoneal lymph nodes may compress ureter and cause hydronephrosis, etc. 3.Hodgkin’s lymphoma may also cause systemic symptoms, with irregular and periodic fever as the main symptom; followed by malaise, night sweats, emaciation and other systemic symptoms. Some patients also have local and generalized itchy skin symptoms, which mainly occur in young women. 4. When Hodgkin’s lymphoma is severe, the enlarged symptoms may involve other organs. The liver lesion is disseminated by the spleen through the veins. Invasion of the liver parenchyma causes enlargement and pressure pain in the liver area, and a few have jaundice; splenomegaly is also uncommon, and splenic involvement indicates hematogenous dissemination. Light infiltration of lung parenchyma, pleural effusion, bone marrow causing bone pain, destruction of lumbar or thoracic spine, and spinal cord compression. There are some early signs of lymphoma, and it needs our attention. Enlarged lymph nodes is one of the early signs of lymphoma. In order to avoid lymphoma, so try to pay attention to the early signs once they appear, we should go to the hospital for investigation in time so as to have a healthier body.