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Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL)
Is a type of lymphoma, which is generally believed to result from white blood cells of the lymphocyte kind. Symptoms may include fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Often there will be non-painful enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, under the arm, or in the groin.
Symptoms:
- Painless swelling of lymph nodes in your neck, armpits or groin
- Persistent fatigue
- Fever and chills
- Night sweats
- Unexplained weight loss — as much as 10 percent or more of your body weight
- Loss of appetite
- Itching
- Increased sensitivity to the effects of alcohol or pain in your lymph nodes after drinking alcohol
Preliminary plan:
- General practitioner appointment
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Reticulocyte count
- Urinalysis
- Stool analysis - Protozoans and Helminths (microscopy)
- Blood test:
- Latent iron-binding capacity
- Iron
- Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)
- Transferrin
- Ferritin
- Folic acid (folates)
- Potassium Sodium Chlorine (K, Na, Cl) (blood)
- Urea (BUN)
- Creatinine
- Glucose
- Cholesterol
- Triglycerides
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
- Alanine transaminase (ALT)
- Bilirubin (total, direct)
- Abdominal ultrasound: liver, gallbladder, pancreas
- Spleen ultrasound
- Lymph nodes ultrasound
- Histological examination of lymph nodes and bone marrow biopsy fragments
- Chest X-ray