title: Report from the Rockefellar Foundation Sponsored International Workshop on reducing mortality and improving quality of life in long-term survivors of Hodgkin's disease: July 9-16, 2003, Bellagio, Italy.
abstract: A workshop, sponsored by the Rockefellar Foundation, was held between 9 to 16 July, 2003 to devise strategies to reduce mortality and improve quality of life of long-term survivors of Hodgkin's disease. Participants were selected for their clinical and research background on late effects after Hodgkin's disease therapy. Experts from both developed and developing nations were represented in the workshop, and efforts were made to ensure that the proposed strategies would be globally applicable whenever possible. The types of late complications, magnitude of the problem, contributing risk factors, methodology to assess the risk, and challenges faced by developing countries were presented. The main areas of late effects of Hodgkin's disease discussed were as follows: second malignancy, cardiac disease, infection, pulmonary dysfunction, endocrine abnormalities, and quality of life. This report summarizes the findings of the workshop, recommendations, and proposed research priorities in each of the above areas.
authors: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. pmauch@lroc.harvard.edu
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Mauch
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Ng
authors: Berthe
authors: B
authors: Aleman
authors: Patrice
authors: P
authors: Carde
authors: Louis
authors: L
authors: Constine
authors: Volker
authors: V
authors: Diehl
authors: Ketayun
authors: K
authors: Dinshaw
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: Gospodarowicz
authors: Steve
authors: S
authors: Hancock
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Hodgson
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Hoppe
authors: Raymond
authors: R
authors: Liang
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Loeffler
authors: Lena
authors: L
authors: Specht
authors: Lois B
authors: LB
authors: Travis
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Wirth
authors: Joachim
authors: J
authors: Yahalom
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D005582:Foundations; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life