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46. Il danno polmonare da radioterapia

Author

Papi, M. G., Biti, G. P., Cellai, E., Chiavacci, A., De Cristoforo, M. T., Biagini, C., Camiciottoli, G., and Magrini, Stefano Maria

Published
1988

50. [Therapeutic implications of the peculiar clinical characteristics of Hodgkin's disease in clinical stages I-II with isolated neck presentation].

Author

Magrini SM, Cellai E, Papi MG, Pertici M, Lastrucci L, Ponticelli P, Sulprizio S, and Biti G

Subjects
Actuarial Analysis, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Hodgkin Disease mortality, Hodgkin Disease radiotherapy, Humans, Lymphatic Metastasis, Male, Middle Aged, Neck, Neoplasm Staging, Retrospective Studies, Hodgkin Disease pathology
Abstract

Among 703 patients with supradiaphragmatic clinical stages I-II Hodgkin's disease consecutively treated 1960 through 1989 at the Florence Radiotherapy Department, we identified 98 cases presenting with cervical and supraclavicular nodes involvement only. The latter cases were retrospectively reviewed to assess: a) if they presented any peculiar clinicopathologic features and b) the possible prognostic and therapeutic implications (if any) of these features. The high incidence of lymphocytic predominance histology (33%) and Waldeyer's ring (WR) involvement (24%) and the very low risk of occult infradiaphragmatic involvement (observed in only 2 of 44 patients submitted to staging laparotomy with splenectomy, 4.5%) are among the distinctive features of the patients with supradiaphragmatic clinical stages I-II Hodgkin's disease. All the 98 patients were treated at presentation with irradiation alone. Actuarial cause-specific survival 20 years after the end of treatment was 87%; the corresponding value for relapse-free survival was 78%. The most frequent complications were irradiation pneumonia, most often asymptomatic, and xerostomia. Our data seem to suggest that, for the majority of these patients: a) staging laparotomy could be avoided and b) "mini mantle" irradiation is an adequate treatment. Moreover, WR irradiation could be avoided in the patients without clinical WR involvement.

Published
1995

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