Precursor T-lymphoblastic lymphoma

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Precursor T-lymphoblastic lymphoma is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in which too many T-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the lymph nodes and spleen. Also called T-lymphoblastic lymphoma, it is most common in young men. {{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

Epidemiology

Of all cancers involving the same class of blood cell, 2% of cases are precursor T lymphoblastic.{{cite book

|author=Turgeon, Mary Louise

|title=Clinical hematology: theory and procedures

|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

|location=Hagerstown, MD

|year=2005

|pages=283

|isbn=0-7817-5007-5

|quote=Frequency of lymphoid neoplasms. (Source: Modified from WHO Blue Book on Tumour of Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. 2001, p. 2001.)

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