Changing role and decreasing size: current trends in radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Radiotherapy, the first cancer treatment modality that offered cure, is still considered to be the most effective "single agent" in treating Hodgkin's disease (HD). Yet, the role of radiotherapy in HD has changed dramatically with the advent of effective combination chemotherapy and the rising concern of long-term complications associated with successful treatment of HD. The new principles of integrating radiotherapy into a combined-modality regimen for HD at different prognostic stages are reviewed here, along with the effect of this new role on radiation field size and design.

publication date

  • September 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
  • Hodgkin Disease

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036719829

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s11912-002-0036-9

PubMed ID

  • 12162917

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 4

issue

  • 5