Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the immune system that is rarer than non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, its clinical presentation and course are just as variable. This type of cancer usually affects young people.

It has benefited from significant therapeutic progress for several years, making this disease one of the great successes of protocol chemotherapy.

It is therefore essential to consult if a painless mass appears, progresses or persists in the lymph nodes (neck, armpits and groin especially).

In addition, we must be attentive to the signals sent to us by our own body: night sweats, unexplained fever and fatigue are alarm symptoms that require medical evaluation.

After a lymph node biopsy to confirm the diagnosis, if you are told that you have Hodgkin lymphoma, the medical teams will inform you of the stage and the prognosis. Indeed, the disease can be localized, just as it can be rather extensive, in all cases current treatments are very effective.

Treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma is relatively personalized. It can only be carried out in an authorized center and after presentation to a multidisciplinary consultation meeting. It is a meeting between several doctors of different specialties, which makes it possible to choose the best treatment for each person. This choice is made according to the stage of the disease, the general state of health of the affected person, their age and their sex.

Dr Thierry BUHE