Deep Phenotyping of Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma, Type Mycosis Fungoides

Mycosis fungoides (MF) is an ultra-orphan disease of which the etiology remains unknown. MF is diagnosed by correlating clinical appearance with histopathological analysis of often multiple invasive skin punch biopsies. To move patient care and the development of novel treatments for MF forward, objective, sensitive and reliable tools that are preferably non-invasive are desired. Therefore, the objective of the current study is to phenotype the early stages of mycosis fungoides in detail and to assess the response of chlormethine (CL) gel monotherapy. With this approach the investigators aim to detect novel biomarkers and to establish methodologies for the (non-)invasive monitoring of MF.