Changes in the Immune System
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma occurs in lymphocytes, and lymphocytes are cells in the immune system, mostly caused by changes in the immune system. People with inadequate immune cells have a greater risk of getting this condition than people with a well-functioning immune system. Patients that have autoimmune diseases have a high of having lymphoma. Infections plague the cells of the immune system, so people with chronic infections also have an increased lymphoma. When a part of the body is infected, the immune systems help make new lymphocytes to fight this infection, so alteration of the immune system causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The DNA of lymphocytes is altered; this alteration hinders basic instructions or information such as when to reproduce or divide from getting to the immune cells.