Hodgkin's disease

Groups for hodgkins disease

Hodgkin's disease is a type of haematological cancer, or cancer of the lymphatic system.

The term lymphoma describes a disorder of the lymphoid tissue. Malignant lymphomas fall into two groups:

Hodgkin's disease or Hodgkin's lymphoma
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

The main difference between the two are:

Hodgkin's many people are young; whereas in non-Hodgkin's the average age is 50 and the incidence increases with age.
The disease spreads in a random un predictable manner for Non-Hodgkin's, where as in Hodgkin's it is more predictable.
Hodgkin's lymphomas are potentially curable; the situation is less positive when looking at the numbers of Non-Hodgkin's patients as a whole.

Read more about Hodgkin's disease in the section called Lymphoma.