Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Melody’s Story. One week later, May 19th, 2015, I was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma. November 2, 2016, was a … Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma is a type of lymphoma, which is a blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system. Moral of this story is: (1) these are symptoms to look for and be aware of and, more importantly, (2) listen to your body . Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common pathologic type of tonsil tumors followed by non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). This article is part of Health's new series, Misdiagnosed, featuring stories from real women who have had their medical symptoms dismissed or wrongly diagnosed. Granted, my anger still creeps into my work on occasion. We actually didn’t really meet until she happened to be roommates with my sister-in-law, Casey, while they were in college. Lymphadenopathy is a common clinical finding and is frequently benign. Other diseases may be more difficult to fight off after development of lymphoma, and fighting the disease itself becomes increasingly difficult as the immune system is compromised. Lymphoma is a blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system. It was something she’d been preparing for and was looking forward to for many months. 2 Case report This mutated cell begins to divide and spread, quickly in many cases, as the lymphatic system runs throughout the body. Melody and I went to the same high school but graduated a few years apart. In 2013, over 731,000 people are either living with lymphoma or are in remission. Lymphoma For Montgomery County Controller Diane Morgan, becoming a financial donor to Fox Chase Cancer Center was about much more than just writing a check. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma starts with the mutation of a certain type of white blood cell, called a lymphocyte. The lymphatic system is a large part of the immune system. Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma variants that are positive for anaplastic lymphoma kinase, classical Hodgkin's lymphoma variants, and infarcted lymphomas might be misdiagnosed as reactive disorders. Diane experienced Fox Chase care first hand when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 39 in 1987. Alison shares her daughter’s story of fighting Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and offers advice to parents supporting their own child through cancer. About 70,000 new cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma are diagnosed … Rarer types, including Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), are easy to be misdiagnosed. I’m doing my best to turn those misdiagnosis lemons into empowerment lemonade. We present here an unusual case of lymphocyte-rich classical HL (LRC) primarily involved the tonsil initially misdiagnosed as tonsillar cancer. When things feel just a little bit off, raise your concerns to the people around you. The study also found that doctors believed lymphoma to be the most misdiagnosed cancer, followed by, in order, breast cancer, sarcomas, melanomas, and cancer of an unknown site. Warning signs suggestive of a malignant etiology include lymph nodes >2 cm in size, supraclavicular location, and generalized lymphadenopathy associated with hepatosplenomegaly or systemic symptoms. A metastatic solid tumor is … My daughter Sophie started university in September 2016 when she was 18. The real blessing is that I now know why I was put on this earth. As it turns out, that misdiagnosis was the worst thing that ever happened to me – and now it turns out it was the best thing, too.