Overrepresentation of patients from HTLV-1 endemic countries among T cell Non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the Netherlands: an indication of under-diagnosis of Adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma

Br J Haematol. 2019 Feb;184(4):688-689. doi: 10.1111/bjh.15160. Epub 2018 Mar 12.

Authors

Carla van Tienen¹, Otto Visser², Pieternella Lugtenburg³, Graham Taylor⁴, Lucy Cook⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
² Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁴ National Centre for Human Retrovirology, Imperial College, Healthcare NHS Trust, London, NY, UK.

PMID: 29527675
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.15160

No abstract available

Keywords: HTLV-1; Netherlands; adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATL); epidemiology; under-diagnosis.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Databases, Factual*
Disease-Free Survival
Female
Human T-lymphotropic virus 1*
Humans
Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell* / diagnosis
Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell* / ethnology
Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell* / mortality
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / diagnosis
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / ethnology
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / mortality
Male
Netherlands / epidemiology
Netherlands / ethnology
Survival Rate