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Hodgkin's lymphoma - Symptom

Alternative Names

Lymphoma - Hodgkin's; Hodgkin's disease; Cancer - Hodgkin's lymphoma

Symptoms:

  • Painless swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, armpits, or groin (swollen glands)
  • Fatigue
  • Fever and chills
  • Night sweats
  • Weight loss
  • Loss of appetite
  • Generalized itching
Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease:
  • Excessive sweating
  • Skin blushing or flushing
  • Neck pain
  • Hair loss
  • Flank pain
  • Clubbing of the fingers or toes
  • Splenomegaly

Signs and tests:

The disease may be diagnosed after:

A staging evaluation (tumor staging) may be done to determine the extent of the disease. The following procedures may be done:

In some cases, abdominal surgery to take a piece of the liver and remove the spleen may be needed. However, because the other tests are now so good at detecting the spread of Hodgkin's lymphoma, this surgery is usually unnecessary.

Hodgkin's lymphoma may change the results of the following tests:

  • Reviewed last on: 5/3/2006
  • William Matsui, MD, Assistant Professor of Oncology, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.