After examining data from over 1000 patients over an 18 year span, researchers from Houston’s University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center concluded that women (whites, blacks and Hispanics) are more likely than men to have the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma prior to turning 40 years old: early-onset mycosis fungoides.
Also known as Alibert-Bazin syndrome, mycosis fungoides is a highly treatable type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that affects the skin.
The research was published in February’s Journal of the American...
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Since the early 1970s, incidence rates for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have nearly doubled. Improved diagnosis has contributed greatly to the increase as doctors better understand cancer of lymphocytes and can distinguish it from other diseases.
