Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

There are two types of lymphomas: Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's, based on the kind of white blood cell they affect. Follicular lymphoma is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that affects white blood cells called ...

Follicular lymphoma is graded 1 to 3 based on how many large B cells (centroblasts) appear under a microscope, which signals how fast it may grow. Grade 1 and 2 follicular lymphoma are usually slow ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Luminari et al 6 describe results of a randomized study evaluating a response-adapted approach in the frontline treatment of follicular lymphoma (FL).