Complications of Hodgkin's Disease

Complications list for Hodgkin's Disease:

The list of complications that have been mentioned in various sources for Hodgkin's Disease includes:

• Edema
• Jaundice
• Fractures - tendency to fracture easily
• Immune deficiency
• Metastatic cancer
• Raised cancer risks after treatment:
  • Leukemia
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Colon cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Bone cancer
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Breast cancer

See also the symptoms of Hodgkin's Disease and Hodgkin's Disease: Introduction.

Complications and sequelae of Hodgkin's Disease from the Diseases Database include:

• Eosinophilia
• Hypouricemia
• Red cell production reduced
• Digital clubbing
• Reed-Sternberg cells
• Ichthyosis
• Basophilia
• Splenic infarction
• Splenomegaly
• Monocytosis
• Pyrexia of unknown origin
• Hilar lymphadenopathy
• AA amyloidosis
• Glomerulonephritis
• Cervical lymphadenopathy
• Leuconychia
• Pruritus
• Leucoerythroblastic anaemia
• Hypercalcaemia

See also the symptoms of Hodgkin's Disease and Hodgkin's Disease: Introduction.

Complications of Hodgkin's Disease:

What You Need To Know About Hodgkin's Disease: NCI (Excerpt)

This type of cancer tends to spread in a fairly orderly way from one group of lymph nodes to the next group. For example, Hodgkin's disease that arises in the lymph nodes in the neck spreads first to the nodes above the collarbones, and then to the lymph nodes under the arms and within the chest. Eventually, it can spread to almost any other part of the body. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Hodgkin's Disease: NCI)

What You Need To Know About Hodgkin's Disease: NCI (Excerpt)

Patients treated for Hodgkin's disease have an increased chance of developing leukemia ; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; and cancers of the colon, lung, bone, thyroid, and breast. Regular followup care ensures that patients are carefully monitored, any changes in health are discussed, and new or recurrent cancer can be detected and treated as soon as possible. Between followup appointments, people who have had Hodgkin's disease should report any health problems as soon as they appear. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Hodgkin's Disease: NCI)

You may also want to research other symptoms in our Symptoms Center.

About complications:

Complications of Hodgkin's Disease are secondary conditions, symptoms, or other disorders that are caused by Hodgkin's Disease. In many cases the distinction between symptoms of Hodgkin's Disease and complications of Hodgkin's Disease is unclear or arbitrary.

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