And remission truly is the sweetest word in the English language.
Before his diagnosis, I hadn't heard of Lymphoma. Except for the vague recollection of the word "Hodgkins" when Delta Goodrem was diagnosed with cancer more than 10 years ago. Now I know that is the more serious of two broad types of Lymphoma: Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkins.
When I read up on how common Lymphoma actually is, I'm surprised (and a little disappointed) I hadn't heard of it before it struck my own family.
- Lymphoma is a cancer of the immune system with a new diagnosis in Australia every 2 hours. It's the most common blood cancer - the fifth most common type of cancer in Australia.
- It causes 11 per cent of childhood cancers and has been increasing at a rate of four per cent each year.
- Over the past 20 years the number of cases in Australia has doubled.
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