Dictionary of Cancer Terms
View in Spanish: Linfoma no contiguo
Noncontiguous lymphoma (non-kun-TIG-yoo-us lim-FOH-muh)
Lymphoma in which the lymph nodes containing cancer are not next to each other, but are on the same side of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs that helps breathing and separates the chest from the abdomen).
Source: National Cancer Institute Dictionary of Cancer Terms, available at www.cancer.gov/dictionary.