Preventing Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Adolescents through HPV Vaccine

Lymphoma is one of the more curable cancers today, but it remains fatal when not addressed promptly and appropriately. With continuing developments in cancer studies, researchers are seeing new methods and approaches of fighting, as well as mitigating the occurrence of many types of cancer, lymphoma included. In fact, a study published in Journal of Viral Hepatitis found that Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) vaccine can affect the development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adolescents.

What is Non-Hodgkin lymphoma?

It is one of the two common kinds of lymphoma that originate from the body’s lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell whose main …read more