title: 2009 Conquering Cancer - The Empowered Patient's Complete Reference to Hodgkin Lymphoma - Diagnosis, Treatment Options, Prognosis (Two CD-ROM Set)
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zlib_text: HODGKIN’S DISEASE
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  CHAPTER 31
  Hodgkin’s disease
  Joachim Yahalom, MD, and David Straus, MD
  In the year 2003, approximately 7,600 new cases of Hodgkin’s disease will be
  diagnosed in the United States. Over the past four decades, advances in radia-
  tion therapy and the advent of combination chemotherapy have tripled the
  cure rate of patients with Hodgkin’s disease. In 2003, more than 80% of all
  newly diagnosed patients can expect a disease-free normal life span.
  Epidemiology
  Gender The male-to-female ratio of Hodgkin’s disease is 1.3:1.0.
  Age The age-specific incidence of the disease is bimodal, with the greatest
  peak in the third decade of life and a second, smaller peak after the age of 50
  years. The second peak is probably an artifact of histologic misclassification,
  since recent studies have shown that many cases diagnosed as Hodgkin’s dis-
  ease in this older age group were, in fact, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL).
  Race Hodgkin’s disease occurs less commonly in African-Americans (2.3