T-cell lymphoma
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Micrograph of an enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (upper right of image), a type of T-cell lymphoma. H&E stain.
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| Specialty | Hematology and oncology |
| Patient UK | T-cell lymphoma |
| MeSH | D016399 |
The T-cell lymphomas are four types of lymphoma that affect T cells. These account for about one in ten cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[1]
They can be associated with Epstein Barr virus and Human T-cell leukemia virus-1.[2]
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Types
The four classes are:
- Extranodal T cell lymphoma
- Cutaneous T cell lymphomas: Sézary syndrome and Mycosis fungoides
- Anaplastic large cell lymphoma
- Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma
More information on various classification schemes is in the main lymphoma article.
Epidemiology
Of all cancers involving the same class of blood cell, 8% of cases are mature T cell lymphomas.[3] Of such cases, 2% are precursor T lymphoblastic and 2% are cutaneous T cell lymphomas.[3]
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