title: Prognostic factors affecting disease-free survival in patients with Hodgkin's disease stages IA and IIA treated initially with radiotherapy alone in a single centre during 1973 to 1992.
abstract: One hundred forty-nine patients with either stage IA (90 patients) or stage IIA (59 patients) Hodgkin's disease (HD) received radiotherapy alone as their first line treatment. Only stage of the nine factors selected for Cox multivariate analysis was of prognostic significance. Patients with grade 1 nodular sclerosing HD did not have a significantly better disease-free survival than those with grade 2 disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Oncology, Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Bessell
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Moloney
authors.forename: I O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dowling
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate