Long-term (15 years) results of extended field radiotherapy in Hodgkin's disease
Sevcíková, E.L.; Boljesíková, E.; Chorváth, M.; Kovacicová, G.
Neoplasma 47(4): 253-256
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2685 PMID: 11043832 Document Number: 520000
From 1975 to 1990, 214 patients with the pathological Stage IA, IB, IIA, IIB and IIIA of Hodkgin's disease were treated by supradiaphragmatic and/or infradiaphragmatic mantle technique. Complete remission was achieved in 70 patients (8%) by means of radiotherapy only. Partial remission was achieved in 9 patients (2%). The survival at 10 years was 86% and 15 years it was 66%. The most frequent late complications were hypothyreosis, Lhermitte's syndrome and radiation pneumonitis.