This treatment is most effective for treating hematological malignancy; leukemia and lymphomas including hairy cell leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, nodular lymphoma, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

There are several synonymous and obsolete terms for this disease, such as CB/CC lymphoma (Centroblastic and Centrocytic lymphoma), nodular lymphoma and Brill-Symmers Disease.

But the 47-year-old Boston lawyer, who decided not to seek re-election to the Senate after being told in October 1983 that that he had nodular lymphoma, a mild cancer of the lymph nodes, remains involved in the Dukakis campaign.

The film told the true story of Deborah Franke Ogg, a woman with nodular lymphoma who experimented with nontraditional healing methods - acupuncture, nutrition, relaxation, visualization exercises and psychotherapy - after her doctors told her that chemotherapy could not help her.