Changing role of surgery in childhood lymphomas

✍ Scribed by Jessie L. Ternberg

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 393 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8756-0437
• DOI: 10.1002/ssu.2980090613

✦ Synopsis

The use of combinations of chemo-and radiotherapy have decreased the need for surgical staging of Hodgkin's disease. The goal of decreasing therapy while maintaining cure rates, however, recreates a need for staging. Attempts are being made to devise criteria to decrease the need for surgical staging or to decrease the extent of the procedure. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma requires adequate tissue samples for analysis, for example, for immunophenotyping to determine treatment. Surgical resection in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is inadequate for treatment but may be helpful. Debulking, however, is no longer recommended.