title: The management of Hodgkin's disease in a regional centre over an eight-year period.
abstract: The staging and management of Hodgkin's disease has been discussed in relationship to experience obtained over an eight year period in a regional centre. Eighty cases were shown to be evaluable and the data pertaining to them has been discussed. A complete remission has been achieved by either wide-field radiotherapy or combnation chemotherapy in 78 percent of these cases. Sixty-six percent of the evaluable patients were alive and well five years after their diagnosis. The importance of interdisciplinary co-operation in management and the referral of such patients to a regional centre has been stressed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009520:New Zealand; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous