Diagnosis

Hi  and welcome to our corner of the Online Community, although I am so sorry to see the circumstance that brought you here and so sorry to hear about your husband.

I am Mike Thehighlander and I help out on the NHL Forum.

I have lived and been treated for my type of NHL since 1990 and I am still around.

The Next Step? The biopsy will be looking to find out what type of Lymphoma this may be. I understand that there are over 80 types of Lymphoma so it is very important that the correct diagnosis is done and what stage it is at.

With this information a treatment plan can be put together. There are various types of chemos and radiotherapy that can be used and on the whole Lymphoma is very treatable.

Do not confuse a blood cancer with a solid tumour cancer as once the treatment starts it basically melts the growth areas away. But it can take time for a clear diagnosis to be done. But his team may start him on some steroids and if they are confidence that this is Lymphoma even some treatment can start but this is all a guessing game at the moment.

My main growth was also in my neck and very quickly started growing and by the time I started treatment it was eventually the size of a brick!!!! but the chemo did its job to allow me to move on to further treatment that I had to have.

You can have a look at my story by hitting Thehighlander.

We have our Online Information and Support Section where you will find some great pages covering the cancer diagnosis, treatment and information. Just search for the Lymphoma section.

You will have questions some come back with them as we are around to help out.

((hugs))

In my case it was outpatient appointment on the Tuesday morning when I was told that they were waiting for the biopsy result ,followed by phone all later that day to tell me to come in to hospital to start treatment that evening . I had 24 hours of fluids ,on the Thursday morning I had a Petscandone,a central pic line was fitted and 100 hours of chemotherapy followed, 2 weeks later a repeat of the chemotherapy which was repeated until I had 6 cycles, in each cycle I had spinal injections of other chemotherapy drugs 

Hi just to add to Mike's advice, re what next, depending on the type of lymphoma, some need treatment straight away, others called indolent types do not always need treatment immediately and people go on what's called watch and wait. So until the biopsy results are back it would be second guessing what's next. 

Let us know what they say and then we can offer lots of help

John