Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is a form of non-Hodgkin T-cell lymphoma (NHL) and presents as an accumulation of T-lymphocytes, presenting as a late-onset seroma in one breast, with high CD30 expression and an absence of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) expression (figure 1). Here, ALK is linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.