The 'Grace and Frankie' star says she’s “handling the treatments quite well.” — via healthing_ca healthing janefonda NonHodgkinLymphoma Lymphoma
NHL is not a single disease but a group of more than 80 closely related cancers that affect the infection-fighting white blood cells called lymphocytes in the immune system. These white blood cells grow abnormally and can form tumours throughout the body. The other main type of lymphoma is Hodgkin lymphoma, which is far less common.There are several types of NHL that develop and spread in different ways, and affect how patients are treated.
Depending on the exact type and stage of cancer, treatment can involve chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted drug therapy, surgery, bone marrow transplant and engineering immune cells,While the number of new cases of NHL has been going up since the early 1980s, the rate of death has been going down since 1999,. Survival is cited as average compared with other cancers. About 68 per cent of people diagnosed will survive for at least five years.
Fonda isn’t the only celebrity to bring attention to NHL — Welsh-born actor Andy Whitfield of the TV hit “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” died in 2011 at age 39, just 18 months after his initial diagnosis, former Red Sox Manager John Farrell was diagnosed with NHL in 2015, and film director Sidney Lumet died of lymphoma at age 86 in 2011.
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