Hodgkin's Disease — Prognosis, Treatment and Etiologic and Immunologic Considerations

Abstract

Etiologic ConsiderationsIt could be argued that an extended discussion of the etiology of Hodgkin's disease, whose cause is unknown, is hardly warranted. Yet a considerable body of information has been accumulated over the past twenty years that bears directly or indirectly on the causation of Hodgkin's disease. Although it is customary to classify this condition with neoplastic diseases, there are two serious objections that make it hard to accept the majority of cases of Hodgkin's granuloma as examples of conventional neoplasm. The first is that the clinical picture of Hodgkin's disease, frequently characterized by chills, sweats, fever, leukocytosis, anemia . . .