Changing role and decreasing size: current trends in radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease Journal Article
| Author: | Yahalom, J. |
| Article Title: | Changing role and decreasing size: current trends in radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease |
| Abstract: | Radiotherapy, the first cancer treatment modality that offered cure, is still considered to be the most effective "single agent" in treating Hodgkin's disease (HD). Yet, the role of radiotherapy in HD has changed dramatically with the advent of effective combination chemotherapy and the rising concern of long-term complications associated with successful treatment of HD. The new principles of integrating radiotherapy into a combined-modality regimen for HD at different prognostic stages are reviewed here, along with the effect of this new role on radiation field size and design. |
| Keywords: | prednisone; review; salvage therapy; doxorubicin; multimodality cancer therapy; combined modality therapy; cancer staging; antineoplastic agent; neoplasm staging; antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols; cyclophosphamide; vincristine; pathology; procarbazine; vinblastine; hodgkin disease; radiation response; dose-response relationship, radiation; bleomycin; humans; human; cvppabo protocol |
| Journal Title: | Current Oncology Reports |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| ISSN: | 1523-3790 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Date Published: | 2002-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 415 |
| End Page: | 423 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 12162917 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 14 November 2014 -- Source: Scopus |
