Eighty-five percent of aggressive lymphomas exhibit which cell type?: (A) Follicular small cleaved cell lymphoma, (B) Diffuse small lymphocytic lymphoma, (C) Diffuse large cell lymphoma, (D) Adult T -cell leukemia-lymphoma
Answer is C. In non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the primary determinant of prognosis remains the grade of the tumor. High-grade lymphomas remain potentially curable; low- grade lymphomas are not curable, but they may have a much more indolent clinical course.