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What treatment would you recommend to effectively treat a pediatric patient newly diagnosed with low risk Hodgkin's lymphoma while minimizing the risk of late toxicity?

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COG and we try to limit radiation whenever possible. The intermediate risk HD study show early responders (PET negative after 2 cycles of ABVE-PC) could skip radiation—personally I have a long discussion about the long term risks of radiation, particularly breast cancer, leukemia and heart damage, a...

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