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 |
| 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.
They can be associated with Epstein Barr virus and Human T-cell leukemia virus-1.
The four classes are:
More information on various classification schemes is in the main lymphoma article.
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.
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