Wendy Osborne, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath, from the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, discusses the meeting of the lymphoma special interest group at the 2017 British Society for Haematology (BSH) Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton, UK. She outlines talks on demystifying T-cell classification, the genetics of follicular lymphoma, and whether to treat asymptomatic follicular lymphoma.