How is "low-grade" lymphoma treated?

How is "low-grade" lymphoma treated?

We sometimes as physicians utilize a watch-and-wait or an observe type of therapy, which is basically doing nothing and watching until symptoms occur, because most patients with low-grade lymphomas don't have symptoms; they just have a very slow-growing tumour that may or may not present difficulties. The most common presentation of a patient with a low-grade lymphoma are lymph nodes. If they are small, they don't bother people. If they are larger, they do. The most common presentation of a low-grade lymphoma that needs treatment is a patient who is having difficulty shaving because their lymph nodes in their neck are interfering with their ability to shave. That would be your most common presentation of someone who may necessitate treatment for low-grade lymphomas. The goal of treatment with a low-grade lymphoma is not a cure in low-grade lymphoma, and that's important. The goal of treatment is to relieve or palliate symptoms, that is, to relieve or palliate lymph node enlargement by making them shrink, relieve or palliate pain that a lymph node is pressing upon, and relieve or palliate many other different types of symptoms. The ability to cure a patient with low-grade lymphoma doesn't really exist.