* The staging of cutaneous T cell lymphoma is based on skin and lymph node involvement.<ref name="canadiancancer">Cutaneous T cell lymphoma. Canadian Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/types-of-nhl/cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma/?region=on Accessed on January 19, 2016</ref>
* Staging for cutaneous T cell lymphoma(Mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sezary syndrome have same critera for staging) is provided in the following table:<ref name="TrautingerEder2017">{{cite journal|last1=Trautinger|first1=Franz|last2=Eder|first2=Johanna|last3=Assaf|first3=Chalid|last4=Bagot|first4=Martine|last5=Cozzio|first5=Antonio|last6=Dummer|first6=Reinhard|last7=Gniadecki|first7=Robert|last8=Klemke|first8=Claus-Detlev|last9=Ortiz-Romero|first9=Pablo L.|last10=Papadavid|first10=Evangelia|last11=Pimpinelli|first11=Nicola|last12=Quaglino|first12=Pietro|last13=Ranki|first13=Annamari|last14=Scarisbrick|first14=Julia|last15=Stadler|first15=Rudolf|last16=Väkevä|first16=Liisa|last17=Vermeer|first17=Maarten H.|last18=Whittaker|first18=Sean|last19=Willemze|first19=Rein|last20=Knobler|first20=Robert|title=European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer consensus recommendations for the treatment of mycosis fungoides/Sézary syndrome – Update 2017|journal=European Journal of Cancer|volume=77|year=2017|pages=57–74|issn=09598049|doi=10.1016/j.ejca.2017.02.027}}</ref><ref name="pmid17540844">{{cite journal |vauthors=Olsen E, Vonderheid E, Pimpinelli N, Willemze R, Kim Y, Knobler R, Zackheim H, Duvic M, Estrach T, Lamberg S, Wood G, Dummer R, Ranki A, Burg G, Heald P, Pittelkow M, Bernengo MG, Sterry W, Laroche L, Trautinger F, Whittaker S |title=Revisions to the staging and classification of mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome: a proposal of the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas (ISCL) and the cutaneous lymphoma task force of the European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) |journal=Blood |volume=110 |issue=6 |pages=1713–22 |date=September 2007 |pmid=17540844 |doi=10.1182/blood-2007-03-055749 |url=}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="3" style="background: #4479BA; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" |Staging for mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #B0C4DE; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" |'''[[Skin]] (T)'''
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |T1
|Limited patches, [[Papule|papules]], and/or [[Plaque|plaques]] covering <10% of the [[skin]] [[Surface area|surface]]. May further stratify into T1a ([[Patched|patch]] only) versus T1b ([[plaque]] [[Patched|patch]])
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |T2
|Patches, [[Papule|papules]], [[or]] [[Plaque|plaques]] covering 10% of the [[skin]] [[Surface area|surface]]. May further stratify into T2a (patch only) versus T2b ([[plaque]] patch).
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |T3
|One or more [[Tumor|tumours]] (1-cm diameter)
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |T4
|Confluence of [[erythema]] covering 80% [[body surface area]]
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #B0C4DE; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" |'''Node (N)'''
|[[Visceral]] involvement (must have [[pathology]] confirmation and [[Organ (anatomy)|organ]] involved should be specified)
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #B0C4DE; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" |[[Blood|'''Blood''']] '''(B)'''
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |B0
|0 Absence of significant [[blood]] involvement: 5% of [[T-cell lymphoma classification|peripheral]] [[blood]] [[Lymphocyte|lymphocytes]] are atypical (Sezary) [[Cell (biology)|cell]]<nowiki/>s B0a [[Clone]] negative B0b [[Clone (cell biology)|Clone]] positive
|-
| align="center" style="background:#ADD8E6;" |B1
|Low [[blood]] [[Tumor|tumour]] burden: >5% of [[T-cell lymphoma classification|peripheral]] [[blood]] [[Lymphocyte|lymphocytes]] are atypical (Sezary) cells but does not meet the [[criteria]] of B2 B1a Clone negative B1b [[Clone (cell biology)|Clone]] positive
The staging of [[Sezary syndrome]] is based on the [[clinical]] stages:<ref name="TrautingerEder2017" /><ref name="JawedMyskowski2014">{{cite journal|last1=Jawed|first1=Sarah I.|last2=Myskowski|first2=Patricia L.|last3=Horwitz|first3=Steven|last4=Moskowitz|first4=Alison|last5=Querfeld|first5=Christiane|title=Primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome)|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology|volume=70|issue=2|year=2014|pages=205.e1–205.e16|issn=01909622|doi=10.1016/j.jaad.2013.07.049}}</ref>
The majority of patients have early stage (77.9% : IA stage IA 38.8%, stage IB 39.1% ), and patients with stage IIB diagnosed in 5.5% and stage III observed in 6.6%. The majority of patients of mycosis fungoides are not diagnosed and end stage not be observed.[1]
Mycosis fungoides in early stage is characterized by non-specific dermatitis or consistent patches observed on the lower trunk and buttocks.[1]
Mycosis fungoides initiates as an indolentlymphoma that may later develop peripheral lymphadenopathy and may finally progress to widespread visceral involvement.[2]