Lymphoma in Africa

Abstract
The significance of malignant lymphoma in the spectrum of cancer in African children was first realized in 1959.1 The strong implication of a viral etiology in some of the subsequent reports has perhaps encouraged the lay press to give undue publicity to the subject. This publicity, in turn, has led to a misplaced emphasis on some features of the neoplasm, and hopeful speculation has occasionally obscured scientific observation. Many of the clinical and pathological features described as unique for the disease in Africa are, in fact, features of malignant lymphoma in children everywhere. It is merely the relative infrequency of . . .

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