Follicular lymphoma natural history, complications and prognosis

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Prognosis

The disease is regarded as incurable (although allogenic stem cell transplantation may be curative, the mortality from the procedure is too high to be a first line option). The median survival is around 10 years, but the range is wide, from less than one year, to more than 20 years.