The strategy of treatment of Hodgkin's disease

The treatment of Hodgkin's disease necessitates, in most cases, an association of radiotherapy for the macroscopic tumoral masses and chemotherapy for the cells generalized in the organism. Whenever a systematic chemotherapy is associated with radiotherapy, a precise staging topography with laparotomy is useless. The current therapeutic trials should seek methods to lighten these treatments by determining the best equilibrium between the two principal methods and by specifying the ventual place of immunotherapy. The present possibility of curing more than three-fourths of Hodgkin's patients incites us to look for means of reducing the treatment and its inconveniences for the curable forms, and search for more active or tolerable treatments for the uncurable forms.