[Hodgkin's disease. Results of diagnosis and therapy (author's transl)]

Abstract

The principles of modern diagnosis and therapy of lymphogranulomatosis are largely standardized today. Whereas the 50% probability survival rate in a group of patients diagnosed before 1970 was about 2 years, 23 out of 30 with standardized diagnosis and therapy have survived until now. Full remission was obtained in 21 of 30 patients. In spite of these encouraging results, the synopsis of the course of the disease shows that relapses and complications must be reckoned with in lymphogranulomatosis. Side effects of therapy may also acquire considerable clinical importance in the individual case.