Burkitt’s lymphoma owes its name to the Irish surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, who in 1958 described 38 Ugandan children with rapidly enlarging facial tumors that were uniformly fatal. 7 He postulated ...

The distinction between Burkitt's lymphoma and diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma is crucial because these two types of lymphoma require different treatments. We examined whether gene-expression ...

Burkitt’s leukemia, or Burkitt’s lymphoma, occurs when tumor cells develop in the bone marrow and bloodstream. Burkitt’s lymphoma is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Lymphoma is a blood ...

Burkitt lymphoma is one of the fastest-growing cancers, but it can be cured. About 1% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in the U.S. are this type. It's more common in children and males. In the U.S ...

A 7-year-old boy from Covington who was diagnosed with cancer has found a source of strength through the LSU Tigers baseball ...

It is found in two smaller subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s: About 2% of all diffuse large B-cell lymphoma diagnoses are THL. Both diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt’s lymphoma are commonly ...

Missing from this discussion is whether endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) should also be considered a polymicrobial disease. Endemic BL is a childhood disease and the rapid onset of disease should ...

Miriam Sevy was a force of nature. That is how Dr. Steve Kussick, president of the board for the all-volunteer, Seattle-based Burkitt’s Lymphoma Fund for Africa, remembers the nonprofit’s founder. A ...

Bertucci had been stricken with Burkitt’s lymphoma — a rare but aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system. “I had seven months of treatment and a lot of ER visits and hospital stays,” said ...

Burkitt’s lymphoma is a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is common in children living in sub-Saharan Africa but can also occur in any person with a compromised immune system.

Compared to the endemic type, the incidence of Epstein-Barr infection is considerably lower in the other two types of Burkitt lymphoma. In the sporadic disease, Epstein-Barr occurs in about 20% of ...

This is the most common type of Burkitt lymphoma in the UK. It is sometimes linked to a virus called the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). This is the virus that causes glandular fever (mononucleosis). But it ...