Macroglobulinemia

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gammopathy, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia

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• Description from the National Cancer Institute Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia is a rare, chronic cancer that is classified as a plasma cell neoplasm.
• But, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia is a type of lymphoma.
• The average age of diagnosis of Waldenstrm's macroglobulinemia is 63 years.
• Key Points Waldenstrms macroglobulinemia is a rare type of slow-growing, non-Hodgkins lymphoma (cancer that begins in the cells of the immune system).
• Despite apparent morphologic and immunophenotypic heterogeneity, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia is consistently composed of cells along a morphologic continuum of small lymphocytes, plasmacytoid lymphocytes, and plasma cells.

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