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Fusilier Jack Wilkes, from Tywyn, Gwynedd, was diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma and became too ill to complete his Lance Corporal training.

This makes CD20 an attractive target for monoclonal antibody therapies which have been used to treat a variety of B-cell lymphomas, including follicular lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, diffuse large B cell lymphomas and high-grade B-cell lymphomas.

The researchers found that "childhood phthalate exposure was strongly associated with incidence of osteosarcoma" and identified correlations with other cancers like lymphoma "driven by associations with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but not Burkitt lymphoma."

There he observed that a surprising number of children developed strange jaw tumors, a cancer that would come to be known as Burkitt lymphoma.

Their findings — they noticed particles shaped like a herpesvirus, only smaller — were published in a landmark paper in The Lancet in 1964 and spurred the realization that this newly identified member of the Herpesviridae family, subsequently named Epstein-Barr virus, was a cause of Burkitt lymphoma.