Duration and prognosis | Pain in lymph nodes in the groin

Duration and prognosis

The cause is also decisive in terms of duration and prognosis. Local inflammations or simple infections usually heal without consequences after a few weeks with the appropriate therapy. More serious infections such as glandular fever can take a long time to progress and cause recurrent attacks in the affected person.

In HIV infection, new drugs reduce the viral load below the detection limit and slow down the course of the disease, but there is no cure. Some cancers are also easily treatable. If lymph nodes are already affected, it is a higher stage and life expectancy is significantly reduced compared to healthy ones.

All articles in this series:

  1. Pain in lymph nodes in the groin
  2. Can this also be cancer?
  3. Diagnosis
  4. Duration and prognosis