The role of local radiation in the treatment of non-hodgkin lymphoma in children

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Abstract
Eighty-one patients between 1 and 15 years of age with non-Hodgkin lymphoma were seen at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in an 8-year period ending December 1973. There was no statistically significant difference among the survival distributions for site or histologic type. The patients also were divided into three groups according to the chemotherapeutic regimen employed in their care, and further subdivided as to whether they received “curative” radiotherapeutic attempts. Children treated with multiple agent chemotherapeutic regimen (LSA-2) did significantly better than children of the LSA-1 or nonprotocol (NP) group. Children with Stage I and Stage II disease did significantly better than children with Stage III and Stage IV disease. Radiation therapy as employed in this study prevented recurrence of local disease. All patients in whom the disease recurred died within a year from the appearance of recurrence. However, no statistically significant association between radiation and survival could be shown in this series.