Mycosis fungoides risk factors

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1], Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sogand Goudarzi, MD [2]

Overview

There are no established risk factors for cutaneous T cell lymphoma.The risk factors in the development of mycosis fungoides is environmental, occupational exposure to long term exposure to chemicals, virainfection.

Risk Factors

There are no established risk factors for cutaneous T cell lymphoma.
The risk factors in the development of mycosis fungoides is environmental and occupational exposure.^[1]^[2]^[3]
Other risk factors for cutaneous T cell lymphoma include :
- Bacterial infection of the skin
- Long term exposure to chemicals
- Smoking
- Medications
- Long term sun exposure
- Viral infections (Human T lymphotropic virus type I)

References

↑ A. S. Whittemore, E. A. Holly, I. M. Lee, E. A. Abel, R. M. Adams, B. J. Nickoloff, L. Bley, J. M. Peters & C. Gibney (1989). “Mycosis fungoides in relation to environmental exposures and immune response: a case-control study”. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 81 (20): 1560–1567. PMID 2795681. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
↑ Hall WW, Liu CR, Schneewind O, Takahashi H, Kaplan MH, Röupe G, Vahlne A (July 1991). “Deleted HTLV-I provirus in blood and cutaneous lesions of patients with mycosis fungoides”. Science. 253 (5017): 317–20. PMID 1857968.
↑ S. K. Ghosh, J. T. Abrams, H. Terunuma, E. C. Vonderheid & E. DeFreitas (1994). “Human T-cell leukemia virus type I tax/rex DNA and RNA in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma”. Blood. 84 (8): 2663–2671. PMID 7522638. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Overview