Prognostic Importance
The presence of B symptoms is a marker for more advanced disease with systemic, rather than merely local, involvement. B symptoms are a clear negative prognostic factor in Hodgkin lymphoma. The relevance of B symptoms in non-Hodgkin lymphoma is less clear, although here also B symptoms tend to correlate with disease that is either more widespread or of a higher histologic grade.
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