Radiation Therapy For Early-Stage Hodgkin’s.

Study Finds Survival Benefit To Radiation Therapy For Early-Stage Hodgkin’s. Medscape reports that a study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 56th Annual Meeting found “a significant survival benefit in patients with early-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma who received consolidation radiation added onto chemotherapy.” The article predicts the study will “fuel the ongoing debate about whether the use of any radiation at all in early-stage Hodgkin’s disease is worth the potential long-term risks.” Some argue that radiation should only be used with the about 12% of patients whose early-stage disease is resistant to chemotherapy.