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Your prognosis is a best guess at your chances of recovering from lymphoma after treatment. Your doctor will think about a few things, called prognostic factors, to get an idea of your odds.
The survival rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is generally lower than that of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but it’s still often curable. Learn about survival rates and the factors influencing outlook.
Below are the 5-year relative survival rates for the two most common types of NHL in the United States – diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma (FL) – based on people diagnosed between 2012 and 2018.
Advances in diagnosis and treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma have helped improve the prognosis for people with this disease. One of the most common places to find swollen lymph nodes is in the neck. The inset shows three swollen lymph nodes below the lower jaw. Signs and symptoms of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma may include:
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a group of blood cancers that develop in your lymphatic system. People are living longer with these conditions thanks to new treatments, including targeted therapies. In some cases, treatments eliminate non-Hodgkin lymphoma signs and symptoms, putting the disease into remission for months or years.
5 year survival is the number of people who have not died from their cancer within 5 years after diagnosis. Generally, for people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in England: These figures are for people diagnosed in England between 2016 and 2020. These 1 and 5 year statistics are for net survival.