| Mycosis Fungoides is a rare form of cutaneous T-cell | | | | not universal. Mycosis fungoides can be treated in a |
| non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It generally affects the skin, | | | | variety of ways. If mycosis fungoides is in the early |
| but may progress internally over time. In the United | | | | stage, treatments such as steroid creams, |
| states, approximately 1000 new cases of mycosis | | | | chemotherapy applied to the skin, or electron beam |
| fungoides occur per year. It affects men twice as | | | | radiation may be used. A good skin care regime, with |
| often as women, and is more common in black people | | | | the regular use of moisturisers, will help to prevent |
| than in whites. Mycosis fungoides can begin at any | | | | dryness and keep the skin supple. Photochemotherapy |
| age, but the most common age is 50 years old. | | | | or the photopheresis is a technique used in the |
| Mycosis fungoides is unrelated to fungus and the | | | | important medical centers for the treatment of the |
| fungoides portion derives from a patient with a severe | | | | fungoides of the micosis |
| case whom Alibert described as having mushroom-like | | | | Mycosis Fungoides Treatment and Prevention Tips |
| skin tumors. Mycosis fungoides can occur at any age | | | | 1. PUVA is a combination treatment. |
| but it is most common in the 40-60 year old age group. | | | | 2. Radiotherapy can be given to them using low |
| Symptoms can include reddish plague-like tumors of | | | | voltage radiation. |
| scaly, thickened skin that may itch or spread and | | | | 3. Regular use of moisturisers, will help to prevent |
| ulcerate. | | | | dryness and keep the skin supple. |
| These patches may resemble eczema or psoriasis | | | | 4. Topical chemotherapy, e.g. nitrogen mustard or |
| and would be found on the back, arms, stomach, face, | | | | bischloroethylnitrosourea. |
| scalp or other parts of the body. Skin tumors phase - | | | | 5. Vorinostat is a second-line drug for CTCL. |
| Red-violet raised lumps (nodules) appear and may be | | | | 6. Application of organic (Manuka) honey to skin |
| dome-shaped (like a mushroom) or be ulcerated. Itching | | | | affected by erythorderma (red skin). |
| (pruritus) is common, perhaps in 20% of patients, and is | | | | |