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The most common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include [[fatigue]], [[fever]] and [[chills]], [[itching]], [[loss of appetite]], soaking [[night sweats]], [[weight loss]], and painless swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, or groin (swollen glands). Less common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include coughing, chest pains, or breathing problems if there are swollen lymph nodes in the chest, pain or feeling of fullness below the ribs due to swollen spleen or liver, pain in lymph nodes after drinking alcohol, skin blushing or flushing. | |||
==Symptoms== | |||
The most common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include the following: <ref> {{cite journal | last=Asher | first=Richard | title=Making Sense | journal=The New England Journal of Medicine | volume=333 | pages 66-67 | date=[[July 6]], [[1995]] }} </ref> | |||
* [[Fatigue]] | |||
* [[Fever]] [[Pel-Ebstein fever]] and [[chills]] | |||
* [[Itching]] all over the body that cannot be explained | |||
* [[Loss of appetite]] | |||
* Soaking [[night sweats]] | |||
* [[Weight loss]] that cannot be explained | |||
* Painless swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, or groin (swollen glands) | |||
Less common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include the following: | |||
* Coughing, chest pains, or breathing problems if there are swollen lymph nodes in the chest | |||
* Pain or feeling of fullness below the ribs due to swollen spleen or liver | |||
* Pain in lymph nodes after drinking alcohol | |||
* Skin blushing or flushing | |||
Systemic symptoms such as fever and weight loss are known as [[B symptoms]]. | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sowminya Arikapudi, M.B,B.S. [2]
Overview
The most common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include fatigue, fever and chills, itching, loss of appetite, soaking night sweats, weight loss, and painless swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, or groin (swollen glands). Less common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include coughing, chest pains, or breathing problems if there are swollen lymph nodes in the chest, pain or feeling of fullness below the ribs due to swollen spleen or liver, pain in lymph nodes after drinking alcohol, skin blushing or flushing.
Symptoms
The most common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include the following: [1]
- Fatigue
- Fever Pel-Ebstein fever and chills
- Itching all over the body that cannot be explained
- Loss of appetite
- Soaking night sweats
- Weight loss that cannot be explained
- Painless swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, or groin (swollen glands)
Less common symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include the following:
- Coughing, chest pains, or breathing problems if there are swollen lymph nodes in the chest
- Pain or feeling of fullness below the ribs due to swollen spleen or liver
- Pain in lymph nodes after drinking alcohol
- Skin blushing or flushing
Systemic symptoms such as fever and weight loss are known as B symptoms.