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|Articles|September 6, 2018
Know the Basics: Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Author(s)Brielle Benyon
This infographic explains some of the basics on mantle cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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While is a type of blood cancer, there are actually many subtypes of the disease that can be broken into two main categories: Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. From there, diseases can be categorized even further out. For example,
Current Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatments for mantle cell lymphoma include:
- Chemotherapy
- Proteasome inhibitors
- Stem cell transplants
- Surveillance
However, new treatments, such as chimeric antigen receptor
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