Biology

Cancer research

Mycosis fungoides

Immunology

Immune system

Lymphoma

Antibiotics

Microbiology

Internal medicine

Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

Medicine

Disease

Blood

This paper reports that aggressive antibiotic treatment inhibits disease activity and lymphocyte proliferation in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). The study offers important evidence for a link between bacterial infection, activation of the immune system, and CTCL progression.

Antibiotics inhibit tumor and disease activity in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma