Steve:
This is very interesting as I had mono as a highschooler. I developed NHL follicar, small cleaved cells in 1998.......did no treatment but alternative. The nodes melted away.
BUT devloped BC in 2003 and 2006 - my oncologists see this as a depressed immune system which can not fight off cancer. Hummm
After 10 years without a node, I have one that appeared on my neck, small but it is there. before going into panick mode, I will have a root canalled tooth checked, which is right above it, first. I have a strong feeling that something is brewing under the capped tooth.
Looking back, I think my cancers were brought on by humongous amounts of stress over the course of many years which totally depleted my body of defense mechanisms.
It probably is quite more complicated than this; however, stress is what I am trying to minimize with great difficulty.
Martine
"steve_lmcs" wrote:
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Hi Janet
The answer is yes. I've been told there's a link (whatever that means) between epstein-barr virus (mono) and the lymphoma I have - follicular center cell NHL. In high school, i had two long bouts with mono and my neck lymph nodes were like golf balls - much, much larger than they are now. i dont think i had the lymphoma in high school though. Many conditions can bring on swollen "glands" such as the flu and other infections. The only way to know whats in the node is a biopsy. In many lymphomas, recent research has shown that the "microenvinonment" within in each node can and does vary. Hence, biopsies dont always provide useful info of whats going on in the whole body, just whats going on in that particular lymph node. me personally, i've declined biopsies and bone marrow extractions.
regards, steve
you wrote:
Can you have an enlarged lymph node and have no cancer there anymore ?
