Kaposi sarcoma after treatment of Hodgkin's disease in a young adult non-AIDS patient: case report and review.
We describe a young woman diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, stage I, at age 20 years. She delayed treatment until age 23, at which time she was considered to have stage II-A disease and was then treated with chemotherapy and involved field irradiation. Two years later, Kaposi sarcoma, which developed on her right shoulder, was excised. Both the Hodgkin's disease and Kaposi sarcoma appeared to be cured, but 3 years later, acute myelogenous leukemia developed and the patient subsequently died in relapse. This is one of the very few instances of a young patient, not infected with the AIDS virus, in whom Kaposi sarcoma developed as a second malignancy after treatment of Hodgkin's disease.
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D018023:HIV Seronegativity; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000209:etiology*; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology*