Mother /72) with NH Lymphoma Tybe B Big Cells in Metastasis. Good Morning, I'm from Italy, i wat to know if total body full metastasis of Lymphoma NH is sign of a desperate case or if it is a normal situation in this patology. Thank you

Is there any more information you can add about her diagnosis? Typically, 'metastasis' is indicative of a cancer's malignancy, and while it is a normal situation in some respects, not every lymphoma proves to be malignant. Still, I think when any cancer spreads, it becomes a serious situation. Not sure 'desperate' is the correct word though.

Unfortunately I do not have appropriate documentation with me, but I can tell you that my mom went to the hospital two months ago for a pleural effusion, which prevented her from breathing.
By X-ray and CT scan results in a broken rib.
The doctors have made several withdrawals breast and pleural fluid without finding cancer cells.
One day they did a biopsy in the chest wall by finding a non-Hodgkins lymphoma, large B-cell.
We do not know jet the outcome of needle aspiration on the hip.
The PET / CT revealed metastases throughout the body.

I read your article
http://www.lymphomation.org/metastasis.htm
where you say that is not correct to call metastasis of a lymphoma NH, so what?

Thanks

To a degree this is merely semantics. Whether called metastasis or extranodal involvement, if a lymphoma has spread to distant sites from the original primary site then it will likely be diagnosed as an unfavorable cancer, in stage III or IV.

The wider point to remember is that a localized cancer- in one place, no spreading - is almost always a better situation than if the disease has spread throughout the body, whether you called it metastatic (which I will agree, is not a term used often in lymphomas) or extranodal.