Current Studies in Hodgkin's Disease

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Abstract
THE radical approach to radiation therapy that is now used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease can be attributed to the various efforts of Gilbert, Peters, Easson and Kaplan and to the finding that the disease was curable when it was localized.1 2 3 4 5 6 The observation that one could treat widespread areas, including most axial lymph nodes and the regions above and below the diaphragm,7 led to increasingly aggressive therapeutic management and, eventually, to reports that laparotomy frequently revealed unsuspected disease, especially in the spleen.8 , 9 Many of us then became interested in the ramifications of laparotomy, a procedure that has proved valuable . . .