Lymphoma in Cats

Cancer of the Lymphocytes in Cats
  
Lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in the lymphocyte cells. A type of white blood cell, lymphocytes play an important and integral role in the body's defenses in the immune system.
 
There are two forms of lymphocytes: B and T cells. Lymphoma may involve neoplastic proliferation of T or B, or non-B/non-T type lymphocytes, occurring primarily in the bone marrow, lymph nodes, and visceral organs.
 
Lymphoma is found to be responsible for around 90 percent of blood cancers and account for about 33 percent of all tumors in ca ...read more

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