lymphoma

He was constantly tired and noticed there was a lump in his throat.

So he was sent to a hospital in February of 1945 where he discovered that he had Hodgkin's lymphoma, then called Hodgkin's disease.

He had cancer.

He was slowly, very slowly sent back to the United States, landing in Walter Reed Medical Clinic in D.C. back when that wasn't a death sentence, where he received radiation therapy and was sent to multiple different hospitals after that.

Charles returned to Illinois, and he picked up exactly where he left off, a schoolteacher, where he would remain until March 22, 1966.

When his cancer finally brought him down and he died at the age of 53.

He survived a whole lot longer with Hodgkin's lymphoma in the 40s and 50s and 60s than I thought he would.

Yeah, geez.

And then that was taken to become a cancer treatment.

The first cancers that were treated were Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute leukemia, both blood cancers.

And that was the type of cancer that could be treated for the next 10 to 20 years as progress was being made.

The field of medical oncology treating solid tumors started in the 1960s into the 1970s, finally becoming its own specialty in the early 1970s.

Adolescents and adults tend to have that sort of classic mono presentation, which we'll discuss.

It should be noted that EBV is also associated with a bunch of other lymphoproliferative diseases like Brickett's and Hodgkin's lymphoma, which we'll not discuss in this episode.

But what is the typical clinical presentation for mono?

Yeah, so patients with mono will often have fever, pharyngitis, palatal petechiae, tonsillar exudate, and bilateral cervical adenopathy.

This petition will stay open until March 17, 2027.

The wording of the petition states, Lymphoma is one of the UK's most common cancers, yet public awareness remains dangerously low.

Early symptoms like a single swollen gland are easily mistaken for minor infections and causing severe diagnostic delays.

Many patients, including myself, present with a single symptom.

And it can pick up one of seven different kinds of cancer.

Lymphosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma are two of those.

And basically, it picks up any circulating DNA, pieces of DNA called nucleosomes that are circulating and they shouldn't be there in those levels.

So if that comes back with a level that's high in a dog that's a senior or a dog that's at risk, the four-year-old up dogs, then we're perhaps going to say to you, okay, let's chase this down.

I was in bad shape.

And after being on methotrexate for about 40 years and having an active life and doing some international work and a lot of volunteering, I developed Hodgkin's lymphoma, which was related to the methotrexate.

Rare, but it happens.

And after that was 2022.