scholarly journals Pretreatment hematocrit as an independent prognostic variable in Hodgkin's disease

Blood ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 562-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
HS Jaffe ◽  
EC Cadman ◽  
LR Farber ◽  
JR Bertino
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Relapse Free Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Prognostic Variable ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Combined Modality

Pretreatment hematocrit in 117 advanced-stage Hodgkin's disease patients treated with a combined modality therapy program was evaluated as an independent prognostic variable with regard to survival and relapse-free survival. Age greater than 40 years, and multiple extranodal sites of involvement were found to be statistically significant independent negative prognostic factors with regard to survival. Pretreatment hematocrit, however, was not an independent negative prognostic variable.

scholarly journals Pretreatment hematocrit as an independent prognostic variable in Hodgkin's disease

Blood ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 562-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
HS Jaffe ◽  
EC Cadman ◽  
LR Farber ◽  
JR Bertino
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Relapse Free Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Prognostic Variable ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Combined Modality

Abstract Pretreatment hematocrit in 117 advanced-stage Hodgkin's disease patients treated with a combined modality therapy program was evaluated as an independent prognostic variable with regard to survival and relapse-free survival. Age greater than 40 years, and multiple extranodal sites of involvement were found to be statistically significant independent negative prognostic factors with regard to survival. Pretreatment hematocrit, however, was not an independent negative prognostic variable.

Treatment of Unfavorable Childhood Hodgkin’s Disease With VEPA and Low-Dose, Involved-Field Radiation

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3088-3094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Friedmann ◽  
Melissa M. Hudson ◽  
Howard J. Weinstein ◽  
Sarah S. Donaldson ◽  
Larry Kun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Stage I ◽  
Stage Iii ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Combined Modality ◽  
Field Radiation ◽  
Involved Field

PURPOSE: Between January 1990 and April 1993, 56 pediatric patients with Hodgkin’s disease were treated on a single-arm trial at three institutions with a regimen designed to maintain high cure rates while minimizing the potential late effects of treatment, such as infertility, second malignant neoplasms, and cardiopulmonary injury. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The regimen used combined-modality therapy with six cycles of vinblastine, etoposide, prednisone, and doxorubicin (VEPA) chemotherapy and low-dose, involved-field radiation. Unfavorable features comprised bulky presentations of localized (stage I or II) disease or advanced (stage III or IV) Hodgkin’s disease. RESULTS: Of 56 patients enrolled, 26 (46%) had unfavorable presentations of stage I/II disease and 30 (54%) had advanced (stage III/IV) disease. Seventy-nine percent of the patients are alive without disease at a median follow-up time of 8.9 years from diagnosis. Nineteen patients had events at a median of 1.5 years (range, 0.4 to 7.9 years) from diagnosis; 17 patients relapsed, one died of cardiomyopathy, and one died of accidental injuries. Survival and event-free survival (EFS) estimates at 5 years for the entire cohort were 81.9% (SE, 5.2%) and 67.8% (SE, 6.3%), respectively. Five-year EFS by stage was 100% for stage I, 79.2% (SE, 8.3%) for stage II, 70% (SE, 14.5%) for stage III, and 49.5% (SE, 11.3%) for stage IV patients. CONCLUSION: Combined-modality therapy with VEPA chemotherapy and low-dose, involved-field radiation is adequate for disease control of early-stage patients with unfavorable features, but it is inferior to other standard regimens for advanced-stage patients.

Treatment of advanced-stage massive mediastinal Hodgkin's disease: the case for combined modality treatment.

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
D L Longo ◽  
A Russo ◽  
P L Duffey ◽  
S M Hubbard ◽  
E Glatstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Overall Survival ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Combined Modality Treatment ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Combined Modality ◽  
Disease Free

In the initial series of 198 patients treated at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP) chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, a review of presenting chest radiographs available on 192 of these patients showed 49 patients with mediastinal masses greater than one third the greatest posteroanterior chest diameter. Five patients had stage IIB disease, and 44 had stage III or IV disease. Thirty-five (71%) patients achieved a complete remission with MOPP chemotherapy. Fourteen (40%) of the complete responders relapsed, but four of these achieved durable remissions in response to subsequent therapy. Thirty (61%) patients have died (14 induction failures, nine relapsed patients, seven complete responders in remission). Thus, with a median follow-up of 20 years (range, 15 to 23), the overall survival for the group is 39%, and the disease-free survival for the complete responders is 60%. A subset of 10 patients received mantle radiation therapy after maximal response to MOPP. One of these patients failed to achieve complete remission, but among the nine complete responders only one has relapsed. In contrast, 13 of 26 (50%) patients achieving a complete response to MOPP alone have relapsed (P2 = .0536). Although MOPP alone was not prospectively compared with MOPP plus radiation therapy in the treatment of advanced-stage massive mediastinal Hodgkin's disease in this series, the retrospective analysis shows a nearly significant difference in disease-free survival favoring combined modality treatment. The difference in tumor mortality between MOPP-treated (44%) and combined modality-treated patients (80%) was also nearly significant (P2 = .055). However, overall survival differences between patients treated with MOPP alone and those treated with combined modality therapy were not significantly different (P2 = 0.23) because of the mortality related to late complications of combined modality treatment.

Long-term results of combined chemotherapy-radiotherapy approach in Hodgkin's disease: superiority of ABVD plus radiotherapy versus MOPP plus radiotherapy.

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Santoro ◽  
G Bonadonna ◽  
P Valagussa ◽  
R Zucali ◽  
S Viviani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Remission Rate ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Relapse Free Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Gonadal Dysfunction

In an attempt to reduce some of the delayed sequelae associated with combined modality therapy in Hodgkin's disease, we randomly tested stages IIB, IIIA, and IIIB MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) v ABVD (Adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine). In 232 previously untreated patients, three cycles of either combination preceded and followed extensive irradiation. The complete remission rate was 80.7% following MOPP and 92.4% following ABVD (P less than .02). The 7-year results indicated that ABVD was superior to MOPP in terms of freedom from progression (80.8% v 62.8%; P less than .002), relapse-free survival (87.7% v 77.2%; P = .06), and overall survival (77.4% v 67.9%; P = .03). Moreover, the comparative iatrogenic morbidity showed that irreversible gonadal dysfunction as well as acute leukemia occurred only in patients subjected to MOPP, while cardiopulmonary studies failed to document significant laboratory differences between the two treatment groups. Present findings indicate that ABVD followed by extensive irradiation represents a valid therapeutic alternative to the widely used alkylating agent-containing regimens plus radiotherapy.

2161 Reduction of adverse effects of combined modality therapy with subtotal nodal irradiation in stage IIIA Hodgkin's disease

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
Farley E. Yang ◽  
Jaishanker Nautiyal ◽  
Claire Powers ◽  
Dennis Hallahan ◽  
Srinivasan Vijayakumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Stage Iiia ◽  
Combined Modality

Stage IIB Hodgkin's disease: the Stanford experience.

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Crnkovich ◽  
R T Hoppe ◽  
S A Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Relapse Rate ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Combined Modality Therapy ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Actuarial Survival ◽  
Combined Modality ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The Impact

Between 1968 and 1982, 126 patients with pathologic stage (PS) IIB Hodgkin's disease were treated at Stanford University with either irradiation alone or irradiation combined with chemotherapy. Actuarial survival and freedom from relapse rates at 10 years for the overall group were 81% and 74% respectively, with no statistically significant difference between the treatment approaches. The impact of the severity and number of constitutional (B) symptoms, as defined by the Ann Arbor Conference, was analyzed. Patients who presented with all three B symptoms had significantly poorer survival and freedom from relapse compared with those patients with only one or two B symptoms (for survival differences, P = .005 and .007; for freedom from relapse differences, P = .002 and .04). Male sex was the only other prognostic factor that correlated with a poor outcome. At 10 years, the survival rate was 66% for males v 84% for females (P = .01), and the freedom from relapse rate was 75% for males v 89% for females (P = .02). The presence of extralymphatic sites of involvement, age greater than 40, or involvement of greater than three lymphoid sites had no significant adverse effect on either freedom from relapse or survival. Patients with large mediastinal masses treated with irradiation alone had a 10-year freedom from relapse rate of 54% v 81% for those treated with combined-modality therapy (P = .15), but there was no significant difference in survival rates (85% for irradiation alone v 71% for combined modality therapy). Treatment recommendations for stage IIB Hodgkin's disease are discussed.

Clinical stages I and II Hodgkin's disease: a specifically tailored therapy according to prognostic factors.

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Carde ◽  
J M Burgers ◽  
M Henry-Amar ◽  
M Hayat ◽  
W Sizoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Clinical Stage ◽  
European Organization ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Negative Laparotomy ◽  
Extended Field ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Better Than

The H5 program in clinical stage (CS) I to II supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin's disease (HD) was tailored to prognostic factors identified in former European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) studies. Among the 494 adult patients included in the study, the 237 patients belonging to the favorable group (H5F) underwent a staging laparotomy (Sx) in order to select the patients who could be treated with limited radiotherapy (RT) only. Thus, 198 patients (84%) with negative laparotomy were treated with RT alone and randomized to either mantle irradiation (M) or extended field mantle plus para-aortic (M + PA) irradiation. Complete remission (CR) was achieved in 99% of the patients. There was no difference in the 6-year relapse-free survival (RFS) rate (74% and 72%, respectively) or survival rate (96% and 89%). Therefore, Sx helped to define those patients who could be treated with M alone in contrast to those who required more aggressive therapy. The 39 patients with positive laparotomy were treated as the unfavorable group (H5U) from onset and randomized to either total/subtotal nodal irradiation (TNI/STNI) or a sandwiched mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP) X 3, M irradiation, MOPP X 3 protocol (3M). Although the RFS rate was higher in the 3M arm (100% v 53%; P = .002), the 6-year survival was not significantly different between the two arms (overall, 92%). In the 257 patients with initial unfavorable disease, the Sx was avoided. They were randomized to either TNI/STNI or 3M. In complete responders (96%), the 6-year RFS was 91% in the 3M arm and 77% in the TNI/STNI arm (P = .02). The pattern of failure differed in the two arms: the inverted Y and spleen irradiation controlled occult infradiaphragmatic disease better than MOPP; conversely, less patients begun on MOPP recurred in the involved mantle areas. The difference in 6-year actuarial total survival (TS) (89% and 82%; P = .05 in favor of the 3M arm) was not retrieved after exclusion of the unrelated deaths from the analysis. The two arms produced similar TS in patients under 40 years of age. TNI retains interest, especially in young men wishing to preserve fertility. The overall result shows that when treatment is tailored to initial prognostic factors, excellent results can be obtained in all patient subgroups at minimal morbidity and toxic cost.

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