lymphoma

Thompson was found to have stage four lymphoma - a type of blood cancer - which had spread to his lungs after twice recovering from the disease during his playing career.

He found out in October that he had cancer — non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — and went public with it last November.

In 2013, she said, she spent five months in the hospital with lymphoma, which would have cost her life or bankrupted her family without Medicaid.

She told the paper that he was diagnosed with lymphoma and pneumonia in recent years.

She has blood cancers myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which have in turn worsened another condition, called hypogammaglobulinemia, which is a low antibody count.