How Hodgkin's Lymphoma Is Treated in Israel

Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer that develops in the lymphatic system (part of the human immune system). Like other types of cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma affects the body cells. Being healthy, cells grow, multiply and in an ordered form replace themselves. Lymphoma-affected cells begin to grow abnormally in the lymphatic system, and can sprout into other organs. As the disease progresses, the body is less able to resist infection.

Hodgkin's lymphoma is quite rare. In a percentage - less than one percent of the total number of cases of lymphoma. The most frequent age of susceptibility to disease in young people occurs between fifteen and thirty-four and in people who are older than fifty-five. Nekhodzhinskaya lymphoma is diagnosed in more frequent cases.

Methods of treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel

The treatment of this type of lymphoma in Israel is practiced and is very successful, which proves the recovery of the majority of patients who have appealed. The length and the program of treatment is determined by the stage of the disease. The most basic methods of treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel include radiation therapy, chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation and high-dosage therapy.

A certain number of patients require no more than one type of treatment. And others from patients need a combination of several approaches. The decision about the cancer treatment program in Israeli clinics depends on a number of provisions, which include: the presence of symptoms, the stage of development of lymphoma and its scale, the results of diagnostic examination and examinations, the overall level of health and the age category of the patient.

Treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel through bone marrow transplantation

Implementation of bone marrow transplantation is possible in Israel only after conducting courses of radiotherapy, high-dosage therapy and chemotherapy, allowing to eliminate the whole mass of malignant cells in the body. Before the course of therapy, the patient is taken samples in the form of stem cells, which are frozen and stored under special conditions. After the therapy, the stem cells frozen earlier are surgically placed instead of the bone marrow, affected by cancer. In the event that, for one reason or another, it is possible that the patient's stem cells are not suitable, donor stem cell transplantation is performed . For several weeks, the bone marrow, transplanted to the patient, takes root in the body and begins to produce the required amount of healthy blood cells.

The bone marrow transplantation in Israel is carried out by the leading doctors of the country with names known to the world medicine. The weighty experience and the level of qualification of specialists in medical institutions make it possible to successfully perform the most complex operational manipulations.

Treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel by radiotherapy

When radiotherapy is used to treat Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel, radioactive rays are used to damage cancer cells, stop their spread and growth. Radiotherapy in the treatment of this type of lymphoma is used regionally in the areas of the affected lymph nodes. Most often, the procedure is used together with chemical therapy.

Treatment of lymphoma in Israel by chemotherapy

Chemotherapy in the fight against Hodgkin's lymphoma in Israel is used, as an effect of antitumor drugs leading to the destruction of cancer cells. Medications disrupt their work, both growth and the spread of malignant cells. The introduction of drugs into the body occurs through a vein, or through tablets, capsules. Once in the body, the medicines circulate throughout the body in the blood, making it possible to destroy systemically the entire mass of malignant cells that have spread.