Current treatment strategies in early stage hodgkin’s disease
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Current Treatment Options in Oncology
- Vol. 4 (4) , 297-305
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11864-003-0005-z
Abstract
Treatment of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) is strictly dependent on stage. Historically, early stage HD included the limited stages I, II, and IIIA (according to the Cotsworth modification of the Ann Arbor classification), whereas advanced HD included stage III with B symptoms and stage IV. It was observed that early stage HD with certain clinical risk factors had a significantly worse outcome. As a consequence, several studies defined these patients as suffering from early stage unfavorable (or intermediate stage) HD, demanding a more aggressive treatment.Keywords
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