lymphoma

This year he fell ill with a recurrence of Richter’s syndrome — an especially dangerous form of 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.