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## Purpose: The patterns of presentation, histologic pattern (nodular or diffuse), treatment, and long-term outcome were studied in patients with lymphocyte-predominant (lp) hodgkin's disease (hd) to determine whether these patients should be treated differently than patients with other subtypes of hd. ## Patients and methods: Pathology was reviewed for 97 patients with an initial diagnosis of lphd made between 1970 and 1993. seventy-five patients had lphd on review: 55 had nodular lphd, 14 had diffuse lphd, and six had lp histology without subclassification. there were 60 males (80%) and 15 females (20%). sixty-six patients (88%), presented with clinical stage (cs) i or ii disease. seventy-one patients were treated at the joint center for radiation therapy (jcrt) and were considered for analysis of treatment outcome. sixty-one of these 71 were treated with radiation (rt) alone; 17 received mantle rt alone, 27 mantle and paraaortic rt, and seven total-nodal irradiation (tni). ten patients with subdiaphragmatic hd received pelvic and paraaortic rt. of the 10 remaining patients, four were treated with rt and chemotherapy (ct) and six were treated with ct alone. the median follow-up t

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Author

S Bodis; M D Kraus; G Pinkus; B Silver; M E Kadin; G P Canellos; L N Shulman; N J Tarbell; P M Mauch

Publisher

American Society of Clinical Oncology; American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (ISSN 0732-183X)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)