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What Causes Bad Body Odor In Lymphoma Patient?
My 88 year old mother has been diagnosed with Lymphoma. She starts radiation treatments next week. We ve just noticed she has a strong odor (stinky tuna-fishy) She lives in a nursing home and we don t know if they aren t keeping her clean enough or if the smell is from the cancer.
Mon, 6 Jul 2015
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I really appreciate your concern, malignancy could cause metabolic changes to great extent and this could be the reason for this, give her more water for drinking care need to be taken for dehydration hope this information helps, take care have a nice day.
I really appreciate your concern, malignancy could cause metabolic changes to great extent and this could be the reason for this, give her more water for drinking care need to be taken for dehydration hope this information helps, take care have a nice day.
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