Hodgkin Lymphoma

Rare complication of cervical neuropathy following mantle radiotherapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 18th, 2003

"The majority of newly diagnosed patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma are expected to survive because of effective therapies established during the last 40 years," researchers in England report.

"Long-term observations from large populations of treated patients have disclosed a variety of late effects of the disease and its therapy that have contributed morbidity and excess mortality to Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors," wrote V.J. McFarlane and coauthors.

The researchers concluded: "As such complications have been recognized treatment approaches have been modified. Here we report a case of cervical neuropathy secondary to mantle radiotherapy, a complication...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-02-18)

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