ALK and anaplastic large cell lymphoma: For the majority of ALK+ ALCL cases, expression of ALK is the consequence of the t(2;5)(p23;q35) chromosomal translocation that results in the fusion of ALK with nucleophosmin 1 (NPM), thereby generating the NPM-ALK protein chimaera with strong expression driven by the NPM promoter, and oligomerisation potential that permits constitutive activation of NPM-ALK tyrosine kinase activity [5,6].