[Clinical aspects and therapy of stage III Hodgkin's disease (author's transl)]

Abstract

Between 1972 and 1974, 50 previously untreated patients with Stage III Hodgkin's disease received medical attention. 24 of them were classified in Stage III A and 26 in Stage III B. In 46 patients the treatment included an initial laparotomy with splenectomy, a 6-month polychemotherapy on the MOPP plan, 4 month's treatment with vinblastine and upper and lower section irradiation. The full remission quota was 84%. After 66 months 78% of all patients were still alive. 62% of the patients are in full remission without relapse, 32% had one recurrence. 10 patients died, 3 of them from Hodgkin's disease and 5 in full remission from infections, septicemia or bone marrow insuffiency.