MeSH D016399 | ||
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Specialty Hematology and oncology | ||
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.
Contents
They can be associated with Epstein Barr virus and Human T-cell leukemia virus-1.
Types
The four classes are:
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. Of such cases, 2% are precursor T lymphoblastic and 2% are cutaneous T cell lymphomas.
References
T-cell lymphoma Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA