Introduction

Lymphoma is a general term for a group of blood cancers that start in the lymphatic system. About 54 percent of the blood cancers that occur each year are types of lymphoma. Lymphoma results when a lymphocyte (a type of white cell) undergoes a malignant change and multiplies, eventually crowding out healthy cells and creating tumors. These tumors enlarge the lymph nodes and/or grow in other sites that are part of the immune system (for example, the skin and other organs). Lymphocytic leukemia, a blood cancer that also originates in a lymphocyte, is closely related to lymphoma.

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