How would you approach early stage unfavorable classical Hodgkin lymphoma with metabolic CR apart from a single residual positive node after 6 cycles of ABVD?
Would you move straight to second-line systemic therapy or first attempt consolidative ISRT/boost, or employ both? Assume node is biopsy-proven.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
If a patient with early-stage, unfavorable HL had an excellent response to 6 cycles of ABVD, but had a single lymph node that only achieved a PR (Deauville 4), then there are two primary options.1. If you judge that the patient has achieved a reasonable response to chemotherapy, suggesting that syst...
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