Clinical staging for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Mycosis Fungoides Cooperative Group has been following patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, including mycosis fungoides and the Sézary syndrome variant. Previous analyses identified the extent of skin involvement and the number of sites of clinically enlarged lymph nodes as important prognostic variables. These two variables were used to classify 340 patients into four clinical stages. Repeat analysis based on additional followup data shows the usefulness of this clinical staging system for identifying patients with differing survival experience. An alternative grouping suggested by fitting a survival model to the data also has been studied. Staging systems based only on skin involvement and lymph nodes are recommended for general use because the information needed is readily available, requiring only physical examination.

publication date

  • February 1, 1984

Research

keywords

  • Lymphoma
  • Skin Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0021340947

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.7326/0003-4819-100-2-187

PubMed ID

  • 6607008

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 100

issue

  • 2