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Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment (PDQ®)

  • Updated: 05/03/2013

Table 6. Intermediate-Risk Disease (All Stage I and Stage II Patients Not Classified as Early Stage; Stage IIIA; Stage IVA)

Chemotherapy (No. of Cycles)a Radiation (Gy) Stage  No. of Patients Event-Free Survival (No. of Years of Follow-up) Survival (No. of Years of Follow-up) 
COPP/ABV (6) [17]IFRT (21)CS I/IIb, CS IIB, CS III10384% (10)c100% (3)
None12278% (10)c
OEPA/OPPA (2) + COPP (2) [18]IFRT (20–35)IIEA, IIB, IIIA21292% (5)N/A
OEPA/OPPA (2) + COPDAC (2) [40]IFRT (20–35)IIEB, IIIEA/B, IIIB, IVA/B13988.3% (5)98.5% (5)
ABVE-PC (3–5) [34]IFRT (21)IB, IIA, IIIA5384% (5)95% (5)

CS = clinical stage; E = extralymphatic; IFRT = involved-field radiation therapy; N/A = not applicable.
aRefer to Table 4 for more information about the chemotherapy regimens.
bWith adverse disease features, defined as one or more of the following: hilar adenopathy, involvement of more than four nodal regions; mediastinal tumor with diameter equal to or larger than one-third of the chest diameter, and node or nodal aggregate with a diameter larger than 10 cm.
cResults from as-treated analysis.

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