What areas do you treat with RT for an intermediate or high risk pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma with a slow early response?

Do you give RT to the entire extent of disease at presentation or just regions with slow early response? Is it necessary to irradiate all known extent of disease at presentation if only one isolated node/region has slow early response at PET2?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

For pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma, radiation fields are really based according to the treatment protocol. If the patient was being treated per AHOD 0031, then the radiation fields would include all sites of initial involvement, assuming they don't meet the criteria for omission of RT (RER and then...

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