Effect of Abvd Chemotherapy with and without Mantle or Mediastinal Irradiation on Pulmonary Function and Symptoms in Early-Stage Hodgkin's Disease

• Main Authors: Hirsch, A., Vander-Els, N., Straus, D. J., Gomez, E., Leung, Denis H. Y., Portlock, C., Yahalom, J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1996
• Subjects: Econometrics; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/346
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To evaluate the effect of doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD) chemotherapy alone and of ABVD with mantle or mediastinal irradiation (RT) on the pulmonary function of patients with early-stage Hodgkin's disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between 1989 and 1993, 60 patients wit...