IL6 and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: Both IL-6 and CRP levels were very much higher in this study (median 381.6 pg/ml and 93 mg/L) than those reported previously in DLBCL [ranging from a median of 0.23pg/ml to 26.9 pg/ml for IL-6 (Načinović-Duletić et al., 2008; Giachelia et al., 2012; Tisi et al., 2014) and 22.4 to 30.9 mg/L for CRP (Cao et al., 2012; Adams et al., 2015)].