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Lymphoma

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In the year 2002 there was an estimated 60,900 new cases of lymphoma in the United States, with 53,900 cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and 7000 cases of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (1). Estimated deaths in 2002 for NHL and Hodgkin’s lymphoma were 24,400 and 1400, respectively. The male to female ratio for both NHL and Hodgkin’s lymphoma is presently 1.1:1. Although the incidence of Hodgkin’s lymphoma has remained stable over the past several decades, there has been an increasing incidence of NHL in North America at a rate of approx 2 to 3% per year. NHL comprises 4% of male and female cancers in the United States, being the fifth most common malignancy among women (after breast, lung, colorectal, and uterine) and the sixth most common among men (after prostate, lung, colorectal, urinary bladder, and melanoma) (1).

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  1. Lerner College of Medicine and The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Robert F. McLain MD

  2. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

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Sobecks, R.M. (2006). Lymphoma. In: McLain, R.F., Lewandrowski, KU., Markman, M., Bukowski, R.M., Macklis, R., Benzel, E.C. (eds) Cancer in the Spine. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-971-4_14

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