"Three days later, my doctors called me back, and they said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and it's called B cell, and it's very aggressive,'" he told People.
But a newer form of treatment focuses on a different form of white blood cell called B cells. They fight infection by creating antibodies, which are blood proteins that trap infections as they try ...
Development of B cells, white blood cells that make antibodies, follows a progression of stages: common lymphoid progenitors, pre-pro-B cells, pro-B cells, pre-B cells, immature B cells ...