The 3 and 2 technique for Hodgkin's disease at Memorial Hospital

This paper presents a technique for total nodal irradiation used at Memorial Hospital for the treatment of Stage IIIA and previously untreated Stage IIIB Hodgkin's disease. This method of treating large fields for this type of lymphoma overcomes problems of dosimetry and treatment tolerance. There are two courses of treatment used in which all lymph node bearing areas from the tips of the mastoids to the femoral triangles are irradiated. A comparison will be made between this technique and the conventional treatment fields for Hodgkin's disease.