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  • Shortly thereafter it was also possible to demonstrate EBV DNA in Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal cancer biopsies.

    Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography 2009

  • Cameroon and Ghana the total cost of generic chemotherapy drugs with a 50 percent cure rate for a type of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma could be as low as $50 per patient.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Hemann and colleagues tested mice with a type of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • Cancer, in this case a rare form called Burkitt's lymphoma, could have taken much more, and that's why Ted, Sev, now 10, and Sev's mother, Laurel, are more grateful for the chemotherapy than depressed about the nerve damage in his feet caused by the cure.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Dan England 2010

  • An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma—now called Burkitt’s lymphoma—that occurred endemically among children in the malaria-ridden belt of sub-Saharan Africa.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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