Clinical Courses of Hodgkin’s Disease and Other Malignant Lymphomas

Atlas of Gallium-67 Scintigraphy

“…Survival of patients with Hodgkin's disease correlates well with this staging system, although figures vary depending on the histological composition of the series and the manner of treatment. With application of modern radiotherapy and combination chemotherapy, the 5-year survival of patients with stage I and II disease has been improved from about 40% in earlier studies (42,43) to near 90% (44), and in stage III and IV survival has jumped from 10% (42,43) to 60-70% (44,45).…”