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Difficulties in harvesting fresh tissue in a clinical setting have hampered our deeper understanding of this malignancy. Herein, we examined ATLL using archived fresh frozen tissue after biopsy using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) with T-cell receptor (TCR) clonal analysis. Highly clonal tumor cells showed multiple activating pathways, suggesting dynamic evolution of the malignancy. By dissecting diverse cell types comprising the TME, we identified a novel subset of cancer-associated fibroblast, which showed enriched epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-related transcripts including early growth response 1 and 2 (EGR1 and EGR2). Cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) of ATLL play an important role for CD4 T-cell proliferation <jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic> FGF7-FGF1 and PDGFA-PDGFRA\/B signaling, and CAFs, particularly EGR-enriched, are also associated with CD8 and NKT expansion by EGFR. 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