Increased risk of sepsis-caused death in Black patients with primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma: A population study of the US SEER registry

To the Editor: We read with interest Madeline et al's article recently published in your journal.1 The authors demonstrated sepsis was more common in black patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) than in non-CTCL non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). However, there were no differences in outcome between CTCL and non-CTCL NHL in this single-center study, and there was no comparison between sepsis and nonsepsis mortalities of CTCL patients. It is unclear whether the increased risk of sepsis in black patients is unique to CTCL or shared by other NHLs.