Second malignant neoplasms in patients treated for hodgkin's disease with radiotherapy or radiotherapy and chemotherapy
β Scribed by Diana F. Nelson; Stephanie Cooper; Marion G. Weston; Philip Rubin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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The incidence of second malignant neoplasms (SMN's) was investigated in a group of 529 patients with Hodgkin's Disease(HD) treated at St Bartholomew's Hospital (SBH). SMNs were seen in 27 of these patients giving an incidence rate three and a half times that expected in an age and sex matched normal
## Abstract The prognosis of relapsing Hodgkin's disease (HD) and high grade aggressive nonβHodgkin'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