Word: lymph
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...would just ignore it--but now, armed with your rapidly growing store of medical knowledge, you can't help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign of lung cancer. A twinge might be internal bleeding. The lump is probably a lymph node--but is it bigger than it should be? Could it be Hodgkin's disease...
...beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor Michael Berkwits. FYI: Kawasaki syndrome, discovered in Japan in the 1960s, may show up in small children as skin rash, fever and enlarged lymph nodes. --By Sora Song
...Owaid, who has blood cancer, is not getting any better. He has clots in his eyes and his lips are bleeding. Yasmin says that many kids in her village are falling sick. Most of them have the same symptoms: fever and pain in their joints because of swollen lymph nodes. Dr.Hussan walks past rows of sick beds, talking to desperate parents and their children. "All these patients are the same," he says. "They are all victims...
...Lymphatic drainage: Gentle pumping and light raking to drain pockets of water retention and release toxins trapped in lymph nodes...
...another study, women with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to several lymph nodes significantly cut the risk of recurrence simply by replacing one of the standard chemotherapy agents with a drug called docetaxel (Taxotere). By blocking cancer cells' division and growth process, docetaxel reduces the risk of tumor recurrence...