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Yale study offers insight into possible cause of lymphoma

02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!

The immune system's powerful cellular mutation and repair processes appear to offer important clues as to how lymphatic cancer develops, Yale School of Medicine researchers report this week in Nature.

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