Does bone pain in a Lymphoma patient mean that the cancer spread to the bone marrow?
Not necessarily. Is the person on chemo? I had a lot of bone pain while I was on chemo. I have spots on the lungs, liver, kidneys and spleen, but they don?t hurt.
Here is where you?ll find the best info: [including online counselors you can chat with]
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
Best wishes
Lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in lymphocytes of the immune system. They often originate in lymph nodes, presenting as an enlargement of the node (a tumor). Lymphomas are closely related to lymphoid leukemias, which also originate in lymphocytes but typically involve only circulating blood and the bone marrow (where blood cells are generated in a process termed haematopoesis) and do not usually form static tumors. There are many types of lymphomas, and in turn, lymphomas are a part of the broad group of diseases called hematological neoplasms.
Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell which are produced in the bone marrow (as are all haemapoetic cells). The cancerous cells come from the bone marrow, that would explain the bone pain. The enlarged lymph nodes come as a result cancerous lymphocytes.
The liver and spleen have huge lymphatic systems which support them, moreso the spleen than the liver because of it?s immune system function. Pain in these organs is not necessarily due to cancer metastasizing (spreading) to them, but can be due to many other factors related to the cancer (depending on the type of lymphoma). Ditto with the eyes.
Why don?t you read this article to educate yourself a little more about what lymphoma is, what kinds there are, and what treatments are available? Some are worse than others in terms of survivability.
No it doesn?t. I?ve gone through Lymphoma and the treatment. I had the cancer in my spleen, neck adn chest (I still have to go through radio).
The thing is with chemo, is that it makes you feel like your getting worse when your not. Flu like symptom such as aches and pains, are relatively normal and mostly expected. You have to understand that Lymphoma is very much like Leukemia in that it?s cancer of the blood (Leukemia is more a liquid cancer, whereas lymphoma is the more solid form). So the deep bone ache in the limbs and eyes just means the chemo is getting everywhere like it?s supposed to.
Beside, even if you did have lymphoma in you bone marrow, it actually wouldn?t make a difference (that?s what my doc said when I asked), the treatment all the same and the recovery rate is. But, if it wasn?t there when they tested for it at first (which they should have), then it is extremely doubtful that it?s there now.
Just keep your chin up, it?ll be fine!
I Wish you and/or whomever it is who has Lymphoma the best of luck, happiness and health!
If you are on Chemo are you recieving the Injecton to boost your white blood supply (I am drawing a total blank on the name right now, but its similar to procrit that boosts your red blood cells) When my grandmother was recieving it we were told that one of the side effects maybe bone pain because the drug was stimulating the marrow to make more white cells, and that she could take claritin to help relieve it.
Pain in those areas can mean many different things and not necessarily cancer. I had severe bone pain during chemotherapy most of it was caused by neupogen and procrit injections to increase my blood cell count. These make the bone marrow work harder to produce more white and red blood cells, thus causing bone pain. Chemotherapy alone can make a person feel like everything is being affected and that ?s because the chemo really does affect every cell in your body not just the cancer cells.
Before I started treatment my immune system was so susceptible to bacteria and viruses that I would be sick all the time. I constantly had a sinus infection that caused terrible headaches, I would catch colds that led to bone pain/chilled bone feeling. When my doctor diagnosed me I was sure I had it in my bone marrow but luckily I was wrong.
I had it in my neck, chest, spleen, liver, and throughout my abdomen, but only occasionally noticed a slight pain in my spleen area I never felt any pain in my liver.
This is only my own experience, I?m not a doctor or a nurse so it?s best to talk to the experts about any symptoms that the person is having only they can tell you for sure what?s going on.
Hope I helped answer you question.
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