A malignancy of white blood cells involving tumor deposits in the spleen. The spleen is a lymphatic organ and has numerous functions in the body including filtering the blood and producing immune cells such as white blood cells. There are a number of different types of spleen cancers including lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and some types of T-cell lymphomas. Roughly 70,000 new cases of lymphoma are diagnosed each year in the US. ...more »
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