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Current management and controversies

A Radiotherapist’s View

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Book cover Hodgkin’s Disease in Children

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 41))

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The goal in managing patients with Hodgkin’s disease is cure of the disease with minimal morbidity, yet maximal quality of life. This goal is universal; it does not represent a controversy. The issues over which there rest divided opinions relate to therapeutic orientation on how to achieve this goal and are largely issues of staging, treatment, and follow-up. Some controversies arise because of facilities available, individual expertise, or experience. Today a child with Hodgkin’s disease has an ~90% likelihood of cure following accurate staging and treatment in a center with demonstrated expertise in pediatric Hodgkin’s disease [1]. Such gratifying results require individualization of therapy, as no two cases of the disease are identical. The management of children requires utilization of not only principles that apply to the adult population, but also judgment with respect to age, stage, and extent of disease, tumor burden, therapeutic options, and late effects of treatment.

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Donaldson, S.S. (1989). Current management and controversies. In: Kamps, W.A., Humphrey, G.B., Poppema, S. (eds) Hodgkin’s Disease in Children. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1739-5_11

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