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Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Encyclopedia of Cancer |
 | | Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma characterized under the microscope by expansion of the mantle zone area of the lymph node with a homogeneous (structurally similar) population of malignant small lymphoid cells. |
 | | These cancerous cells have slightly irregular nuclei and very little cytoplasm, and are mixed with newly made normal lymphocytes (white blood cells) that travel from the bone marrow to the lymph nodes and spleen. |
 | | Lymphomas are cancers that occur in this lymphatic system and B-Cell lymphomas—also called non-Hodgkin's lymphomas—include follicular lymphomas, small non-cleaved cell lymphomas (Burkitt's lymphoma), marginal zone lymphomas (MALT lymphomas), small lymphocytic lymphomas, large cell lymphomas and also mantle cell lymphomas. |
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