Pediatric Guidelines for Mycosis Fungoides

Recommendations for Caring for Pediatric Patients Now Available

Cutaneous lymphomas are quite rare, and for many years guidelines developed for adults to diagnose, stage and treat mycosis fungoides were followed with some adjustments for pediatric patients. More recently, cutaneous lymphoma research and clinical practice has shown that children differ from adults both clinically and histologically and the approach to their care should reflect those differences. 

In collaboration with the three largest societies for cutaneous lymphoma, the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas (ISCL), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer-Cutaneous Lymphoma Tumor Group (EORTC-CLTG), and United States Cutaneous Lymphoma Consortium (USCLC), Prof. Chalid Assaf, from the Skin Cancer Center Krefeld, and Prof. Emmilia Hodak, from Rabin Medical Center, have developed a set of clinical practices, known as pediatric guidelines, for diagnosing, staging and treating children and young adolescents who have mycosis fungoides. 

Listen to our conversation with Prof. Assaf regarding the new for pediatric guidelines, how they were developed and the hope they provide for both children with mycosis fungoides and their parents.

Guidelines

ISCL/EORTC-CLTG/USCLC recommendations for the diagnosis, staging and treatment of early-stage paediatric mycosis fungoides- a Modified Delphi Consensus

Part One: Diagnosis and Staging

Part Two: Treatment

Introduction to pediatric guidelines

Prof. Emmilia Hodak, dermatologist from Rabin Medical Center (Petah Tigva, Israel), provides an update on cutaneous lymphoma related to young patients and the current work to develop pediatric guidelines for mycosis fungoides.
 

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