Curcumin also repressed the growth of B lymphoma cells through suppression of the egr-1 gene (known as nerve growth factor-induced protein A) expression, which affected the suppression of the c-myc gene and the anti-apoptotic protein bcl-XL in BKS-2 cells (immature B cell lymphoma) [62]. This evidence concerns the gene EGR1 and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.