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PET-guided treatment in patients with advanced-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma (HD18): final results of an open-label, international, randomised phase 3 trial by the German Hodgkin Study Group.

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This open-label, randomised, parallel-group phase 3 trial investigated whether metabolic response determined by PET after two cycles of standard regimen eBEACOPP (PET-2) would allow adaption of treatment intensity, increasing it for PET-2-positive patients and reducing it forPET- 2-negative patients and showed non-inferiority in the 5-year progression-free survival estimates.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2017-12-23. It has received 250 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Standard treatment & Procarbazine.

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Hodgkin lymphoma, version 2.2020

TL;DR: The introduction of less toxic and more effective regimens has significantly advanced HL cure rates and this portion of the NCCN Guidelines focuses on the management of classic HL.
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FDG-PET/CT in the management of lymphomas: current status and future directions.

TL;DR: FDG‐PET/CT plays major roles in the various phases of management of lymphoma and constitutes a step towards the pursuit of personalized treatment.
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A Prognostic Score for Advanced Hodgkin's Disease

TL;DR: The prognostic score developed may be useful in designing clinical trials for the treatment of advanced Hodgkin's disease and in making individual therapeutic decisions, but a distinct group of patients at very high risk could not be identified on the basis of routinely documented demographic and clinical characteristics.
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Standard and Increased-Dose BEACOPP Chemotherapy Compared with COPP-ABVD for Advanced Hodgkin's Disease

TL;DR: Investigation of three combinations of chemotherapy for advanced Hodgkin's disease found increased-dose BEACOPP resulted in better tumor control and overall survival than did COPP-ABVD and standard BEACopP.
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