Hodgkin's Disease — Prognosis, Treatment and Etiologic and Immunologic Considerations

SurgeryOver the past twenty years there have been occasional advocates of radical surgical treatment of Hodgkin's disease, and such advocates exist today52 , 53 The evidence that surgery has a place in the primary treatment of Hodgkin's disease, with very rare exceptions, is quite meager. This evidence is based on good survival figures in small groups of highly selected cases. For example, Slaughter et al.52 report that 11 (61 per cent) of 18 patients treated surgically were living and well five years after treatment. However, it must be noted that five-year survival for similar highly selected Stage I Hodgkin's disease from . . .