Primary Management of Hodgkin's Disease

Abstract

WITH the rapid evolution of ideas on the pathogenesis and primary treatment of Hodgkin's disease, it is difficult for the physician who sees only an occasional case to maintain a coherent view of management. This article attempts to provide this view: the concepts presented here form the basis of the management of Hodgkin's disease in the Lymphoma Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Two recent symposia contain the major portion of available knowledge about this disorder and should be consulted for details.^{1 , 2} Fundamental to all attempts at curative treatment of Hodgkin's disease is the assumption that in a significant fraction . . .