Hodgkin's Disease

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Overview


Hodgkin's disease is a type of lymphoma. Lymphomas are cancers of the lymphatic system—the body's blood-filtering tissues that help to fight infection and disease. Like other cancers, lymphomas occur when cells divide too much and too fast. Growth control is lost, and the lymphatic cells may overcrowd, invade, and destroy lymphoid tissues and metastasize (spread) to other organs.



There are two general types of lymphomas: "Hodgkin's Disease" (named after Dr. Thomas Hodgk...Read the full article