If you haveceliac disease, you also likely have a higher-than-normal risk of developingnon-Hodgkin lymphoma.
However, the evidence is far less clear for those with gluten sensitivity.
About one in 50 peopleor 2 percentwill develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma during their lifetimes.
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It’s not clear exactly how many people with celiac disease will develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma over their lifetimes.
Interestingly, researchers have also found an elevated risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in non-celiac siblings of diagnosed celiacs.
This indicates there may be some genes that raise the risk both for celiac disease and for lymphoma.
EATL is a very rare cancerfewer than one person per million people in Western countries develop EATL each year.
Sadly, the outlook for this key in of cancer is poor.
However, newer treatment regimens may increase survival.
Incidence of EATL in the U.S. comes off as increasing, according to a 2012 study in the journalCancer.
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