Abstract
Lymphoma Study Group of Japanese pathologists reviewed 3,194 cases of malignant lymphoma in Japan, according to the WHO Classification.1 Sixty-nine percent of cases were of B-cell lymphoma, 25% were of T- or NK-cell lymphoma and 4% of Hodgkin lymphoma. Among T- or NK-cell lymphoma, human T-cell leukemia virus type-I (HTLV-I)-associated adult T-cell leu ke mia-lymphoma (ATL) was the most frequent subtype (7.5%), PTCL, unspecified was the second (6.7%), and the relative frequency of nasal and nasal-type NK/T-cell lymphoma (2.6%) was higher than Western countries but less than other East Asian countries including Korea and Hong Kong.
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