Initial response to salvage therapy determines prognosis in relapsed pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma patients

Radiotherapy as salvage treatment in pat

Radiotherapy as salvage treatment in patients with hodgkin's disease or non-hodgkin's lymphoma relapsing after initial chemotherapy

✍ Carine Kirkove; Adrian R. Timothy 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 319 KB

## Abstract The prognosis of relapsing Hodgkin's disease (HD) and high grade aggressive non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is generally poor since many of these patients fail to respond to second line chemotherapy. Radiation therapy has been reported as an effective but seldom used, alternative treatment