Hodgkins Lymphoma?

Question

What is the rate ate which a Reed-sternberg cell multiplies? In other words is there a standard growth rate at which a hodgkins tumour grows?

Answer 1

Here is a site with great info on that:
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
Best wishes

Answer 2

Hodgkin's lymphoma, formerly known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma first described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832. Hodgkin's lymphoma is characterized clinically by the orderly spread of disease from one lymph node group to another and by the development of systemic symptoms with advanced disease. Pathologically, the disease is characterized by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Hodgkin's lymphoma was one of the first cancers to be rendered curable by combination chemotherapy.

Patients with early stage disease (IA or IIA) are effectively treated with radiation therapy although chemotherapy may also be advisable. Patients with later disease (III, IVA, or IVB) are treated with combination chemotherapy alone. Patients of any stage with a large mass in the chest are usually treated with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

However there is no standard growth rate at which a hodgkins tumour grows.

Currently, the ABVD chemotherapy regimen is the gold standard for treatment of Hodgkin's disease. The abbreviation stands for the four drugs Adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine. Developed in Italy in the 1970s, the ABVD treatment typically takes between six and eight months, although longer treatments may be required. Another form of treatment is the newer Stanford V regimen, which is typically only half as long as the ABVD but which involves a more intensive chemotherapy schedule and incorporates radiation therapy.

Another form of treatment, mainly in Europe for stages > II is BEACOPP.

With appropriate treatment, over 85% of Hodgkin's lymphoma cases are curable.

Answer 3

No. It all depends on the person's overall health, immune system and genetic composition.