| lymphoepithelioma |
A type of cancer that begins in the tissues covering the nasopharynx (the upper part of the throat behind the nose).
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| lymphokine-activated killer cell |
A white blood cell that is stimulated in a laboratory to kill tumor cells. Also called an LAK cell.
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| lymphoma |
Cancer that begins in cells of the immune system. There are two basic categories of lymphomas. One kind is Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is marked by the presence of a type of cell called the Reed-Sternberg cell. The other category is non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, which includes a large, diverse group of cancers of immune system cells. ...
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| lymphosarcoma |
An obsolete term for a malignant tumor of lymphatic tissue.
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| lymphocyte activation |
stimulation of lymphocytes by specific antigen or nonspecific mitogens resulting in macromolecular synthesis (RNA, protein, and DNA) and production of lymphokines; it is followed by proliferation and differentiation of the progeny into various effector and memory cells.
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