T-cell lymphoma
T-cell lymphoma is less common than B-cells lymphoma. T-cell lymphoma, as the name suggests, affects the T-cells of the immune system that helps to fight against infections — Among all the patients of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 15 percent of patients diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma. T-cell lymphoma has the following subtypes.
- Precursor T-lymphoblastic lymphoma: This cancer develops in the lungs and can spread to the thymus.
- Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL): This cancer also has other types that mostly occurs in internal organs, skin, and lymph nodes.
- Angioimmunoblastic lymphoma: This is a very destructive subtype of T-cell lymphoma.
- Sézary syndrome: This subtype does not affect only skin but also affects other areas like internal organs, blood, and lymph nodes.
- Mycosis fungoides: This type of T-cell lymphoma mainly affects the skin and causes symptoms related to other skin disorders like eczema and dermatitis.
Lymphoblastic lymphoma, enteropathy-associated intestinal T-cell lymphoma, extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, and adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma are some of the rare types of T-cell lymphoma.