Childhood cancer survivors are more likely to need special education services, especially survivors of central nervous system tumors, leukemia, and Hodgkin disease.
Children's Oncology Group studies of Hodgkin disease are addressing such issues.
Hodgkin disease is a type of lymphoma.
The first sign of Hodgkin disease is often an enlarged lymph node.
In most cases, Hodgkin disease can be cured.
One of these compounds, procarbazine, has been used to treat Hodgkin disease, melanoma, and lung cancer since the 1960s.
Schwartz CL: The management of Hodgkin disease in the young child.
For example, radiation therapy used to treat Hodgkin disease by age 16, especially radiation to the chest and neck, increases the risk of breast cancer.
In one series of patients with early-stage Hodgkin disease, the presence or absence of night sweats had no impact on cure rates and outcome.
One type is called Hodgkin disease.