Further tests led doctors to conclude that he has anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a blood cancer.

The natural history of follicular large cell lymphoma remains controversial.

Patients are managed like others with diffuse large cell lymphoma and require doxorubicin-based combination chemotherapy.

Therapy is modeled after the treatment of comparably staged diffuse large cell lymphomas, but the optimal approach remains to be defined.

Treatment of anaplastic large cell lymphoma that affects the skin is usually surgery and/or radiation therapy.

He was one of the first to use monoclonal antibodies to treat patients with melanoma, leukemia and T cell lymphoma.

CD30 is associated with anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

Low grade types include lymphocytic and small cell lymphoma.

High grade types include lymphoblastic, immunoblastic, and large cell lymphoma.

It can appear very similar to anaplastic large cell lymphoma.