Research

Research Discovers CTCL Incidence Rising in US

The Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation has funded an important epidemiology study that shows that the number of new cases of CTCL has doubled. In this study, published in the July 2007 issue of the Archives of Dermatology, Drs. Vincent Criscione and Martin Weinstock of Brown University report that there are approximately 1,600 new cases of CTCL diagnosed each year in the United States. This represents over double the number of new cases in the past fifteen years. read more...

Ground-breaking Quality of Life Research

Dr. Marie-France Demierre of Boston University School of Medicine, Director of Skin Oncology, collaborated with the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation on an extremely important study, that of our patients’ health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life is a multidimensional term that includes the physical, functional, psychological, social health, and well-being of the individual. read more...