[Radiotherapy of Hodgkin's disease in clinical stages I and II A: relapse of the disease and salvage therapy].
The authors describe the results of 71 patients with clinical stage I A (40 patients) and II A (31 patients) primarily treated with radiotherapy alone (61 mantle fields and 10 subtotal-nodal plus spleen irradiation). All patients achieved complete remission at the end of the treatment; 31 (43.7%) patients (15 at stage I and 16 at stage II) relapsed during the follow-up, mostly for nodal or extranodal extensions (87% of relapses). In 21/31 relapsed patients chemotherapy +/- radiotherapy was utilized as salvage treatment. Three patients died for second solid tumors and 1 patient died for jatrogenic late effect (leukemia after 4 cycles of MOPP). Despite the high percent of relapses, the long term overall survival (83.4%) of these patients is quite satisfactory mostly for the efficacy of chemotherapy as salvage treatment. However the authors think that laparosplenectomy plus subtotal-nodal irradiation is the treatment of choice for patients with Hodgkin disease at stage I and II A. Chemotherapy, instead, must be primarily utilized only for patients with a worse prognosis for hilar adenopathies or "bulky" mediastinum.
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Radioterapia della malattia di Hodgkin in stadio clinico I e II A: riprese di malattia e terapia di salvataggio.