Burkitt lymphoma

British  

/ ˈbɜːkɪts, ˈbɜːkɪt /

noun

1. a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus

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Etymology

Origin of Burkitt lymphoma

named after Dennis Burkitt (1911–93), British surgeon who first described the tumour

Example Sentences

Fusilier Jack Wilkes, from Tywyn, Gwynedd, was diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma and became too ill to complete his Lance Corporal training.

From BBC

This makes CD20 an attractive target for monoclonal antibody therapies which have been used to treat a variety of B-cell lymphomas, including follicular lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, diffuse large B cell lymphomas and high-grade B-cell lymphomas.

From Science Daily

The researchers found that "childhood phthalate exposure was strongly associated with incidence of osteosarcoma" and identified correlations with other cancers like lymphoma "driven by associations with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but not Burkitt lymphoma."

From Salon

There he observed that a surprising number of children developed strange jaw tumors, a cancer that would come to be known as Burkitt lymphoma.

From New York Times

Their findings — they noticed particles shaped like a herpesvirus, only smaller — were published in a landmark paper in The Lancet in 1964 and spurred the realization that this newly identified member of the Herpesviridae family, subsequently named Epstein-Barr virus, was a cause of Burkitt lymphoma.

From New York Times