| 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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| MeSH | D016399 |
The T-cell lymphomas are the four types of lymphoma that affect T cells. These account for perhaps 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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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.[3] Of such cases, 2% are precursor T lymphoblastic and 2% are cutaneous T cell lymphomas.[3]
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