Abstract
In the 150 yr since the 1st description of Hodgkin''s disease, treatment methods have become increasingly sophisticated and effective. Relapses are concentrated within the first 5 yr after treatment. Accordingly, anyone who survives the first 5 yr has a 95% chance of cure. Modern techniques in diagnosis, staging and combined chemotherapy and irradiation have brought clinicians within sight of total therapeutic conquest of this once inexorably fatal malady.