Around 80,000 people will be diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in 2025, according to the American Cancer Society’s key statistics for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. NHL is one of the most common forms of cancer in the U.S. – around four percent of all cancer patients have it. It is a kind of cancer which develops in the lymphatic tissue and lymph nodes, parts of our immune system, according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Lymphoma cells are cancer cells which might develop in just a single place, or in many parts of the lymphatic system, such as in immune cells or bone marrow. Around 90 percent of NHL cases start in B cells, according to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
There are many forms of NHL, such as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma. Many forms of NHL are very treatable cancers – NHL has a 74 percent five year survival rate, according to National Cancer Institute data.
NHL treatments include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, surgery, and stem-cell transplantation.
Public awareness of the disease has grown in part due to high-profile cases involving celebrities with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some stars have battled the disease publicly, while others tragically passed away, drawing attention to the realities of living with NHL.
Risk factors for NHL include being over the age of 60, being male, being white, and having a first-degree relative with NHL. In addition, thousands of lawsuits have alleged that people have developed NHL due to exposure to Roundup, a popular herbicide.
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1. Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an actress whose work spans numerous genres and 60+ years of television and film. She has won multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two British Academy Film Awards.
Her first movie was 1960’s Tall Story. She became famous acting in movies such as Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella, Fun with Dick and Jane, California Suite, The Electric Horseman and 9 to 5. Her two Academy Awards were for her work in Klute and Coming Home. She also received Oscar nominations for her work in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Julia, The China Syndrome, On Golden Pond and The Morning After.
Fonda is also famous for her political activism during the Vietnam War. She was given the nickname “Hanoi Jane” after being photographed sitting on top of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun in 1972 in Hanoi.
She is also famous for exercise tapes, including Jane Fonda’s Workout, which ended up being the highest-selling videotape of its era.
Fonda has survived cancer numerous times. She had a lumpectomy in 2010 due to breast cancer and recovered. In 2018, Fonda had a cancerous growth surgically removed from her lip. In 2022, Fonda announced she was diagnosed with NHL and had started chemotherapy treatments. Fonda, in December 2022, stated the cancer was in remission.
2. Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges is an actor whose career has spanned over seven decades. He has won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Bridges appeared on a TV series called Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1960, and made a feature film debut in Halls of Anger in 1970. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in The Last Picture Show, and is known for his work in King Kong, Tron, Jagged Edge, The Morning After, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit, Iron Man, and Tron: Legacy.
Bridges received Oscar nominations for his work in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contender, True Grit, and Hell or High Water, and won an Academy Award for his work in Crazy Heart.
Bridges, in 2020, announced he was diagnosed with NHL and had gone through chemotherapy. In 2021, Bridges announced the cancer was in remission.
3. Sam Neill
Sam Neill is an actor from New Zealand who was first recognized by his role in 1977’s Sleeping Dogs. He is also known for his work in My Brilliant Career, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession, Evil Angels, Dead Calm, The Hunt For Red October, The Piano, In The Mouth of Madness, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World Dominion.
Neill has also appeared in multiple television shows including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Simpsons, The Tudors, Crusoe, Happy Town, Alcatraz, Rick and Morty, Merlin, Merlin’s Apprentice and Peaky Blinders.
Neill has been nominated for three Golden Globes and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
March 2023 saw Neill reveal that he had been going through chemotherapy since March of 2022 after he was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. He said the cancer was in remission, but that he will need chemotherapy on a monthly basis for the remainder of his life.
4. Dave Coulier
Dave Coulier is an actor and comedian who is best known for playing Joey Gladstone on the TV show Full House.
When he was 19, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began performing comedy at the Comedy Store, performing alongside Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman and Jay Leno.
He was initially cast as part of Saturday Night Live in 1986, but ended up being left off the show because management felt he was too similar to Dana Carvey.
Coulier stayed on Full House from 1987 until the show was canceled in 1995.
In 2016, Coulier reprised the role of Gladstone in Fuller House, which ran from 2016 to 2020.
October 2024 saw Coulier diagnosed with NHL – he started on chemotherapy. In March 2025, a representative for Coulier confirmed he was cancer-free.
5. Abby Lee Miller
Abby Lee Miller is a dance instructor, studio owner, author, television personality and choreographer. She founded the Abby Lee Dance Company. She is best known for appearing on Dance Moms, a reality television show, from 2011 to 2019.
Miller formed the Abby Lee Dance Company in 1980 at her mother’s studio. She took over the studio in 1995, renaming it Reign Dance Productions.
Miller started appearing on Dance Moms in 2011. The show follows the training as well as careers of children in show business and dance under Miller’s tutelage, as well as relationships between the dancers, Miller and their mothers.
The show had three spinoffs: Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, Dance Moms: Miami and Dance Moms: Abby’s Studio Rescue.
April 2018 saw Miller diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma after spinal surgery. Her lymphoma went into remission in September 2018, and she started on physical therapy in order to relearn how to walk.
6. Paul Allen
Paul Allen was a businessman, researcher, computer programmer, philanthropist, author, investor, sports executive, explorer and film producer. He is best known for co-founding Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates in 1975. It was Allen who came up with the name Microsoft.
Allen was the 44th wealthiest person in the world. His estimated net worth was $20.3 billion when he died in October 2018.
Allen owned the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers, and partially owned Seattle Sounders FC.
Allen gave over $2 billion towards advancing science, education, technology, community services, the arts and wildlife conservation.
Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983. In 2009, he was diagnosed with NHL. Allen died of cancer-related septic shock in October 2018 at 65 years old.
7. Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder was an actor, comedian, filmmaker and writer. He is primarily known for his role as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He is also known for his work in The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Another You.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in The Producers and Young Frankenstein. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work in the TV show Will & Grace.
Wilder was diagnosed with NHL in 1999. Wilder confirmed the NHL was in complete remission in March 2005 after a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy.
Wilder died at age 83 in 2016 due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He had kept knowledge of the condition private so as to not sadden Willy Wonka fans.
8. Jackie Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the First Lady of the United States – the husband of President John F. Kennedy. She was also a writer, socialite and book editor.
Kennedy was a very popular first lady, endearing herself to Americans with devotion to family, campaigns to restore and preserve historic architecture and landmarks, dedication to historically preserving the White House, and her interest in American arts, culture and history.
Kennedy was considered an international icon for her sense of fashion, and she was very popular around the world for her work as a cultural ambassador.
She married John F. Kennedy in 1953 and had four children with him – two of the children died in infancy.
Time magazine named Kennedy Woman of the Year in 1962.
In 1993, Kennedy was diagnosed with NHL. She started on chemotherapy in January 1994, but the NHL had spread to her liver, brain and spinal cord by March 1994 and was deemed terminal in May 1994.
Kennedy died in May 1994 at the age of 64 with her children by her side.
9. Mr. T
Mr. T is an actor and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his roles as B.A. Baracus in The A-Team and Clubber Lang in Rocky III. He is well-known for his distinctive hairstyle, his gold jewelry, a tough-guy persona and the catchphrase “I pity the fool,” which was first uttered in Rocky III.
Mr. T got his role in Rocky III after Sylvester Stallone spotted him while he was taking place in the America’s Toughest Bouncer competition. His role was originally intended to just have a few lines, but he was eventually cast as the movie’s primary antagonist.
The A-Team was a major hit, and Mr. T’s character ended up being the show’s de facto star.
Mr. T was a professional wrestler in the WWF, WCCW and WCW, notably performing as Hulk Hogan’s tag-team partner at WrestleMania I.
He was diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in 1995. The cancer eventually went into remission, and he joked, “Can you imagine that? Cancer with my name on it – personalized cancer!”
10. Michael C. Hall
Michael C. Hall is an actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in Dexter and Six Feet Under. He has won a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and has been nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards.
His acting career began in theater, where he acted in plays in Broadway and off Broadway.
2010 saw an announcement that Hall was going through treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. That year, he accepted a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award while wearing a knitted cap on his bald head after losing hair to chemotherapy. April 2010 saw an announcement that the cancer was fully in remission.
