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Mycosis fungoides: Mycosis fungoides is a rare form of T-cell lymphoma of the skin. The disease is typically slowly progressive and chronic. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Mycosis fungoides is available below.
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Prognosis for Mycosis fungoides: Unlike some other lymphomas, the outlook is generally good. Symptoms can usually be controlled with treatment. However treatment is not 100% curative.
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A form of lymph cancer characterized by scaly skin patches. It progresses over several years to form elevated skin lesions and then tumors. (Source: excerpt from Handout on Health Scleroderma: NIAMS)
A peripheral (mature) T-cell lymphoma presenting in the skin with patches/plaques and it is characterized by epidermal and dermal infiltration of small to medium-sized T-cells with cerebriform nuclei. Patients with limited disease generally have an excellent prognosis. In the more advanced stages, the prognosis is poor. (WHO, 2001) -- 2003 - (Source - Diseases Database)
Mycosis fungoides is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Mycosis fungoides, or a subtype of Mycosis fungoides,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Mycosis fungoides as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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