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How do you define bulky disease for Hodgkin's lymphoma which is outside the mediastinum?

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Radiation Oncology · University Hospital Basel

Definition of bulk in lymphoma is not homogenous among countries, study groups, and diseases.

Overall, 10 cm is considered the cutoff by some. Recently, the cutoffs of 7 or 7.5 cm have been introduced, especially in DLBCL.

The definition tends to be disease-specific sometimes, since landmark studies ...

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