THEME: "Frontiers in Breast and Women’s Cancer Research and Therapy"
Lymphoma is a cancer that begins in infection-fighting cells of the immune system, called lymphocytes1. These cells are in the lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, bone marrow, and other parts of the body. When you have lymphoma, lymphocytes change and grow out of control1. Like most cancers, the majority of the genetic mutations that cause lymphoma happen spontaneously, without an identifiable cause