Vol 6, No 1 (2015)
Review paper
Published online: 2015-05-14
Advances in the treatment of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma
DOI: 10.5603/Hem.2015.0014
Hematologia 2015;6(1):44-51.
Abstract
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is lymphoid neoplasm showing a favourable patient prognosis. This article summarizes advances made within the last 5 years in the treatment of patients with HL; the most important being positron emission tomography used for assessing early on how effective treatments are and for cases where monoclonal antibodies in relapse settings are introduced.
Keywords: Hodgkin lymphomapositron emission tomographybrentuximab vedotin