A 38-year-old member asked:
t-cell lymphoma, non-hodgkin's lymphoma - what are they, are they the same thing?
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Dr. William A Biermann answered
45 years experience Medical Oncology
Not really: Non-hodgkin's lymphomas are a very large group of diseases. Lymph cell can be called t cells or b cells based on surface proteins. T cell lymphomas are just one group of non-hodgkins lymphomas. There are also several types of those tcell lymphomas.
Answered on Dec 30, 2013
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