{"id":167578,"date":"2023-07-14T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/4-things-to-know-about-marginal-zone-lymphoma"},"modified":"2023-07-14T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:22:46","slug":"4-things-to-know-about-marginal-zone-lymphoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/4-things-to-know-about-marginal-zone-lymphoma","title":{"rendered":"4 Things to Know About Marginal Zone Lymphoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4-things-to-know-about-marginal-zone-lymphoma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/cancer-types\/lymphoma.html\">Lymphoma<\/a> is often thought of as a cancer of lymph nodes, but it\u2019s actually a cancer of the lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are white blood cells that manage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/cancerwise\/3-myths-about-inflammation-and-cancer.h00-159301467.html\">inflammation<\/a> in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Chronic inflammation can sometimes lead to a lymphoma known as marginal zone lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>Marginal zone lymphoma is a rare, slow-growing B-cell lymphoma. Because it\u2019s so rare, marginal zone lymphoma is often treated like other subtypes of B-cell lymphomas, and new treatment options are often explored through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/patients-family\/diagnosis-treatment\/clinical-trials.html\">clinical trials<\/a> that group marginal zone lymphoma with other B-cell lymphoma subtypes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lymphoma is often thought of as a cancer of lymph nodes, but it\u2019s actually a cancer of the lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are white blood cells that manage inflammation in the body. Chronic inflammation can sometimes lead to a lymphoma known as marginal zone lymphoma. Marginal zone lymphoma is a rare, slow-growing B-cell lymphoma. Because it\u2019s so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}