What Is the Life Expectancy for Someone With a Diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma?

Survival rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma are typically used by physicians as a standard method of determining a patient’s prognosis. While survival rates are generally based on prior outcomes of people who previously had the disease, many factors may affect a prognosis, such as age, other existing health problems, the type of lymphoma, the stage of disease at the time of diagnosis, and the treatment received, explains the American Cancer Society.