Hodgkin's Disease

Alternating MOPP and ABVD Chemotherapy Plus Mantle-Field Radiation Therapy in Patients With Massive Mediastinal Hodgkin's Disease Reviewers: Kenneth Blank, MD and John Han-Chih Chang, MD Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology , Volume 15, Number 11Seventy percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease have tumor involving the mediastinal nodes, which lie in the chest near the...
Gallium Scans in the Management of Patients With Hodgkin's Disease: A Study of 101 Patients Source: Gallium Scans in the Management of Patients With Hodgkin's Disease: A Study of 101 Patients Emile Salloum, Debra Schwab Brandt, Vicente J. Caride, Eugene Cornelius, Daniel Zelterman, Warren Schubert, Thomas Mannino, Dennis L. CooperJournal...
Heterozygous Germline ATM Mutations Do Not Contribute to Radiation-Associated Malignancies After Hodgkin's Disease Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, MD Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology 1999, Volume 17, Number 4: pages 1259-1266.BackgroundHodgkin's disease (HD) in children and young adults has been very successfully treated. Nearly 80% or more are "cured" or...
Identification of Common Germinal-Center B-Cell Precursors in Two Patients with Both Hodgkin's Disease and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Reviewers: Kenneth Blank, MD Source: New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 340 No. 16 p. 1239IntroductionB-cells are immune cells that fight infection by producing immunoglobulins, a type of protein on the surface ofB-cells, which binds to...
Increased Mortality after Successful Treatment for Hodgkin's Disease Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, MDSource: Journal of Clinical Oncology, November 1998, Volume 16 (Number 11): pages 3592 ? 3600IntroductionAdvances in the treatment of pediatric Hodgkin's disease (HD) have improved cure rates tremendously. ...
Randomized Comparison of ABVD Chemotherapy with a Strategy that Includes Radiation Therapy in Patients with Limited-Stage Hodgkin's Lymphoma: National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Authors: Meyer RE, Gospodarowicz MK, Connors JM, et al. Source: JCO 23(21):4634-42, 2005. Background 90% of patients with limited-stage Hodgkin's disease achieve a durable disease-free state Long-term survival is impacted by...
Randomized Study of Intensive MOPP-ABVD With or Without Low-Dose Total-Nodal Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Stages IIB, IIIA2, IIIB, and IV Hodgkin's Disease in Pediatric Patients: A Pediatric Oncology Group Study Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, M.D. and Leonard Farber, M.D. Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology Volume 15, Number 8 (August), 1997: pp 2769 - 79 Hodgkin's lymphoma or disease (HD) treatment has evolved tremendously over past several decades....
Salvage Radiotherapy in Patients With Relapsed and Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A Retrospective Analysis From the German Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group Authors: Andreas Josting, Lucia Nogová, Jeremy Franklin, Jan-Peter Glossmann, Hans Theodor Eich, Markus Sieber, Thomas Schober, Heinz-Dietrich Boettcher, Ulrich Schulz, Rolf-Peter Müller, Volker Diehl, Andreas Engert Source: Journal of...
Second Cancer among Long-term Survivors from Hodgkin's Disease Reviewers: Kenneth Blank, MD Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Vol 42 No. 2 p.373BackgroundGreat strides have been made in treating childhood cancer. Today, the majority of children diagnosed with cancer...