Lymphoma in Africa
- 31 October 1963
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 269 (18) , 982-983
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196310312691814
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 . . .Keywords
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