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While a lymph node in the neck is usually the size of a split pea, it can swell to be 1 inch in diameter or larger. If this occurs, you should see a doctor within 24 hours. If a lymph node swells ...
They'll pay close attention to your armpits, neck, groin, spleen, and liver. Tests for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Your doctor may ask you to get blood and urine tests.
While some lumps can be a cause for concern, a lump on the back of the neck or along your hairline usually isn’t anything serious. It could be anything from an ingrown hair to a swollen lymph node.
A painless lump in your neck, underarms, or groin is often the first sign that you have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but swelling in these glands alone doesn't mean you have cancer.
A 19-year-old Canadian woman, Hanna Bordage, initially dismissed her neck and shoulder pain as mere stress, only to discover ...
Getty Images Around one in 20 will experience alcohol-induced pain, says Lymphoma Action. This is felt in the lymph nodes — glands that are commonly found in the neck, armpit and groin.
Five hundred fifty patients with lymph node–positive head and neck cancer were treated between 1990 and 2002 with radiotherapy (RT) at a median dose of 74.4 Gy; 24% of these patients (n = 133) were ...
PATIENTS AND METHODS: We reviewed the records of 92 patients with stage I or II angiocentric lymphoma who were treated at Yonsei Cancer Center between 1976 and 1994. All patients were treated with ...
Cervical (in the neck) lymph nodes normally are up to 1 cm (in fact, in one large study, no person with a lymph node smaller than 1 cm had cancer). Tender nodes are less likely to be cancer.