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How prevalent is follicular lymphoma in the US?

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• September 13, 2025

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Learn how common follicular lymphoma is in this video.

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Healthtree contact Matthew Mckinney, MD

Matthew Mckinney, MD

Transcript

How prevalent is follicular lymphoma
in the United States?

Follicular lymphoma is the most, most common
form of indolent form.

It's the second
most common type of lymphoma in adults.

It's about 20% of lymphoma is what we call
non-Hodgkin lymphoma is overall.

That leads to an incidence
that in, you know,

if you take 100,000 people

and follow them for a year or so,
kind of a medium sized city, you'd expect

something like 3 to 4 of those people
to get Follicular lymphoma as a diagnosis.

So overall, lymphomas are about the fifth
most common cause of cancer death,

although afflict lymphomas, you know,
just one of many different subtypes of cancers

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