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== Famous cases ==
In 1995 actor [[Mr. T]] was diagnosed with a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, or mycosis fungoides.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbWxOQF0kJo|title=Mr. T, T cell lymphoma survivor|date=2013-05-30}}</ref> Once in [[Remission (medicine)|remission]], he joked about the coincidence: "Can you imagine that? Cancer with my name on it — personalized cancer!<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102054754/http://copingmag.com/cwc/index.php/celebrities/celebrity_article/mr_t|title=Mr. T - The Ultimate Tough Guy goes Head-to-Head with Cancer|website=copingmag.com|date=March 2000}}</ref>"
In 1995 actor [[Mr. T]] was diagnosed with a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, or mycosis fungoides.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbWxOQF0kJo|title=Mr. T, T cell lymphoma survivor|date=2013-05-30}}</ref> Once in [[Remission (medicine)|remission]], he joked about the coincidence: "Can you imagine that? Cancer with my name on it — personalized cancer!<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102054754/http://copingmag.com/cwc/index.php/celebrities/celebrity_article/mr_t|title=Mr. T - The Ultimate Tough Guy goes Head-to-Head with Cancer|website=copingmag.com|date=March 2000}}</ref>"

Popular British television actor Paul Eddington died of mycosis fungoides after living with the condition for four decades. <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/actor-reveals-he-has-rare-skin-cancer-yes-minister-star-refuses-to-let-illness-remove-him-from-1419608.html</ref>
Popular British television actor Paul Eddington died of mycosis fungoides after living with the condition for four decades. <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/actor-reveals-he-has-rare-skin-cancer-yes-minister-star-refuses-to-let-illness-remove-him-from-1419608.html</ref>


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Mycosis fungoides
Skin lesions on the knee of a 52-year-old male patient with Mycosis fungoides
SpecialtyOncology

Mycosis fungoides, also known as Alibert-Bazin syndrome[1] or granuloma fungoides, is the most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. It generally affects the skin, but may progress internally over time. Symptoms include rash, tumors, skin lesions, and itchy skin.

While the cause remains unclear, most cases are not hereditary. Most cases are in people over 20 years of age, and it is more common in men than women. Treatment options include sunlight exposure, ultraviolet light, topical corticosteroids, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.

Signs and symptoms

Plaque of mycosis fungoides
Plaque of mycosis fungoides on foot treated with Imiquimod at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, and then Radiation at Lehigh Valley Hospital.

Typical visible symptoms include rash-like patches, tumors, or lesions.[2] Itching (pruritus) is common, perhaps in 20 percent of patients, but is not universal. The symptoms displayed are progressive, with early stages consisting of lesions presented as scaly patches. These lesions prefer the buttock region.[3] The later stages involve the patches evolving into plaques distributed over the entire body. The advanced stage of mycosis fungoides is characterized by generalized erythroderma, with severe pruritus and scaling.[4]

Cause

The cause of mycosis fungoides is still unknonwn. However, there are a few current hypothesized causes of the disease. One of these hypotheses is that mycosis fungoides is caused by genetic and cellular signalling abnormalities. Examples of these abnormalities include clonal abnormalities and altered expression of adhesion molecules and/or cytokins. [5]

Additionally, the disease is an unusual expression of CD4 T cells, a part of the immune system. These T cells are skin-associated, meaning they are biochemically and biologically most related to the skin, in a dynamic manner. Mycosis fungoides is the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), but there are many other types of CTCL that have nothing to do with mycosis fungoides and these disorders are treated differently.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis is sometimes difficult because the early phases of the disease often resemble eczema or even psoriasis. Several biopsies are recommended, to be more certain of the diagnosis. The criteria for the disease are established on the skin biopsy:[6]

  • the superficial papillary dermis is infiltrated by a bandlike lymphocyte infiltrate
  • epidermotropism
  • presence of atypical T-cells with cerebriform nuclei in the dermal and epidermal infiltrates.
Histopathology of Pautrier microabscesses in cutaneous T cell lymphoma.

Pautrier's microabcesses are aggregates of four or more atypical lymphocytes arranged in the epidermis.[7] Pautrier microabcesses are characteristic of mycosis fungoides but are generally absent.

To stage the disease, various tests may be ordered, to assess nodes, blood and internal organs, but most patients present with disease apparently confined to the skin, as patches (flat spots) and plaques (slightly raised or 'wrinkled' spots).

Peripheral smear will often show buttock cells.[8]

Staging

Traditionally, mycosis fungoides has been divided into three stages: premycotic, mycotic and tumorous. The premycotic stage clinically presents as an erythematous (red), itchy, scaly lesion. Microscopic appearance is non-diagnostic and represented by chronic nonspecific dermatosis associated with psoriasiform changes in epidermis.

In the mycotic stage, infiltrative plaques appear and biopsy shows a polymorphous inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis that contains small numbers of frankly atypical lymphoid cells. These cells may line up individually along the epidermal basal layer. The latter finding if unaccompanied by spongiosis is highly suggestive of mycosis fungoides. In the tumorous stage a dense infiltrate of medium-sized lymphocytes with cerebriform nuclei expands the dermis.

Prognosis

A 1999 US-based study of patient records observed a 5-year relative survival rate of 77%, and a 10-year relative survival rate of 69%. After 11 years, the observed relative survival rate remained around 66%. Poorer survival is correlated with advanced age and black race. Superior survival was observed for married women compared with other gender and marital-status groups.[9]

Treatments

Mycosis fungoides can be treated in a variety of ways.[10] Common treatments include simple sunlight, ultraviolet light (mainly NB-UVB 312 nm), topical steroids, topical and systemic chemotherapies, local superficial radiotherapy, the histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat, total skin electron radiation, photopheresis and systemic therapies (e.g. interferons, retinoids, rexinoids) or biological therapies. Treatments are often used in combination.

There is limited evidence for the efficacy of topical and systemic therapies for mycosis fungoides.[11] Due to the possible adverse effects of these treatments in early disease it is recommended to begin therapy with topical and skin-directed treatments before progressing to more systemic therapies.[11] Larger and more extensive research is needed to identify effective treatment strategies for this disease.[11]

In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted orphan drug designation for naloxone lotion, a topical opioid receptor competitive antagonist used as a treatment for pruritus in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.[12][13]

The US FDA approved the drug mogamulizumab (trade name Poteligeo) in August 2018 for treatment of relapsed or refractory mycosis fungoides and Sézary disease.[14]

Epidemiology

It is rare for the disease to appear before age 20, and it appears to be noticeably more common in males than females, especially over the age of 50, where the incidence of the disease (the risk per person in the population) does increase. The average age of onset is between 45 and 55 years of age for patients with patch and plaque disease only, but is over 60 for patients who present with tumours, erythroderma (red skin) or a leukemic form (the Sézary syndrome). The incidence of mycosis fungoides was seen to be increasing till the year 2000 in the United States,[15] thought to be due to improvements in diagnostics. However, the reported incidence of the disease has since then remained constant,[16] suggesting another unknown reason for the jump seen before 2000.

History

Mycosis fungoides was first described in 1806 by French dermatologist Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert.[17][18] The name mycosis fungoides is very misleading—it loosely means "mushroom-like fungal disease". The disease, however, is not a fungal infection but rather a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was so named because Alibert described the skin tumors of a severe case as having a mushroom-like appearance.[19]

Famous cases

In 1995 actor Mr. T was diagnosed with a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, or mycosis fungoides.[20] Once in remission, he joked about the coincidence: "Can you imagine that? Cancer with my name on it — personalized cancer![21]"

Popular British television actor Paul Eddington died of mycosis fungoides after living with the condition for four decades. [22]

See also

References

  1. ^ synd/98 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ Cerroni, Lorenzo; Kevin Gatter; Helmut Kerl (2005). An illustrated guide to Skin Lymphomas. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-4051-1376-2.
  3. ^ Jawed, Sarah I.; Myskowski, Patricia L.; Horwitz, Steven; Moskowitz, Alison; Querfeld, Christiane (2014-02-01). "Primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome)". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 70 (2): 223.e1–223.e17. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2013.08.033. ISSN 0190-9622. PMID 24438970.
  4. ^ Beigi, Pooya Khan Mohammad (2017). "Diagnosis and Management". Clinician's Guide to Mycosis Fungoides. Springer International Publishing. pp. 13–18. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47907-1_4. ISBN 9783319479064. PMC 1806090.
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  9. ^ Weinstock, Martin A.; Reynes, Josefina F. (1999). "The changing survival of patients with mycosis fungoides". Cancer. 85 (1): 208–212. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990101)85:1<208::AID-CNCR28>3.0.CO;2-2. ISSN 0008-543X.
  10. ^ Prince HM, Whittaker S, Hoppe RT (November 2009). "How I treat mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome". Blood. 114 (20): 4337–53. doi:10.1182/blood-2009-07-202895. PMID 19696197.
  11. ^ a b c Weberschock, Tobias; Strametz, Reinhard; Lorenz, Maria; Röllig, Christoph; Bunch, Charles; Bauer, Andrea; Schmitt, Jochen (2012-09-12). "Interventions for mycosis fungoides". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (9): CD008946. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD008946.pub2. ISSN 1469-493X. PMID 22972128.
  12. ^ "Elorac, Inc. announces orphan drug designation for novel topical treatment for pruritus in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL)". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
  13. ^ Wang H, Yosipovitch G (January 2010). "New insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of chronic itch in patients with end-stage renal disease, chronic liver disease, and lymphoma". International Journal of Dermatology. 49 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1111/j.1365-4632.2009.04249.x. PMC 2871329. PMID 20465602.
  14. ^ "Press Announcements - FDA approves treatment for two rare types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma".
  15. ^ Morales Suárez-Varela, M. M.; Llopis González, A.; Marquina Vila, A.; Bell, J. (2000). "Mycosis fungoides: review of epidemiological observations". Dermatology. 201 (1): 21–28. doi:10.1159/000018423. ISSN 1018-8665. PMID 10971054.
  16. ^ Korgavkar, Kaveri; Xiong, Michael; Weinstock, Martin (2013-11-01). "Changing incidence trends of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma". JAMA Dermatology. 149 (11): 1295–1299. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.5526. ISSN 2168-6084. PMID 24005876.
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  18. ^ Alibert JLM (1806). Descriptions des maladies de la peau observées a l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, et exposition des meilleures méthodes suivies pour leur traitement (in French). Paris: Barrois l’ainé. p. 286. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12.
  19. ^ Cerroni, 2007, p.13
  20. ^ "Mr. T, T cell lymphoma survivor". 2013-05-30.
  21. ^ "Mr. T - The Ultimate Tough Guy goes Head-to-Head with Cancer". copingmag.com. March 2000.
  22. ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/actor-reveals-he-has-rare-skin-cancer-yes-minister-star-refuses-to-let-illness-remove-him-from-1419608.html

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