To prevent Hodgkin’s disease, attention must be paid to reducing risk factors.
Disease-related risk factors
- HIV infection
- EBV infection
- Immunosuppressive therapy
Other risk factors
- Wood preservatives
- Hair dye
Fertility-protective measures (fertility-preserving measures)
- In female patients, medicinal measures: Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues together with hormonal combined contraceptives (contraceptives) or estrogen transdermally (“through the skin“).
- Cryopreservation (freezing).
- Man:
- Sperm (sperm cells)
- Testicular tissue (later: testicular sperm extraction, TESE).
- Woman: fertilized/unfertilized eggs.
- Man:
After histological diagnosis confirmation, propagation diagnostics and organ function diagnostics as well as any fertility-preserving measures should be completed within 4 weeks.
Note: Cryopreservation of eggs and sperm as well as the associated medical measures are paid for by the statutory health insurance under certain conditions. Those under 18 years of age and, in general, women over 40 and men over 50 years of age are excluded.
Primary prevention (protective factors)
- Consumption of organic products (68. 946 French adults; follow-up period 4, 5 years): the quarter of consumers with the highest “organic food score” was 25% less likely to develop tumor disease than the quarter least likely to have eaten organic foods (hazard ratio 0.75; 95% confidence interval: 0.63 to 0.88; highly significant); lymphoma occurred three-quarters less frequently in organic consumers (hazard ratio of 0.24 (0.09-0.66); non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was as much as 86% less frequent (hazard ratio of 0.14 (0.03-0.66). CONCLUSION: It is possible that the increase in lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma over the past 10 years is partly due to conventionally produced foods, which include pesticides. Note: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has identified certain pesticides as probable carcinogens (Group 2A: malathion (organophosphate from the insecticide group), diazinon (thiophosphoric acid ester used as a non-systemic insecticide and acaricide), and glyphosate (biologically active major component of some broad-spectrum or Totalherbicides)), respectively, classified as possible carcinogens (Group 2B: tetrachlorovinphos (organophosphate) and parathion (alkyl phosphate)).
