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Hodgkin lymphoma also known as Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease is a type of lymphoma which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes. It was named after Thomas Hodgkin a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School who first described abnormalities in the lymph system in 1832.Hodgkin’s lymphoma is characterised by the orderly spread of disease from one lymph node group to another and by the development of systemic symptoms with advanced disease.
