title: Management of low-grade lymphomas in Hong Kong Chinese.
abstract: During a 14-year period, 122 of 840 (14.5) Hong Kong patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were diagnosed to have low-grade lymphomas according to the Working Formulation. Only 28 (23%) of them had stage I and II disease and local radiotherapy appeared to be curative in some of them. Although remissions were achieved with chemotherapy in a majority of the stage III and IV patients, a pattern of continuous relapses was noted in their disease-free survival curve. Multivariate analysis revealed that clinical stage and presence of B symptoms were significant independent prognostic factors.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Loke
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044466:Asian People; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D015996:Survival Rate