Would you recommend consolidative radiation therapy for advanced stage bulky Hodgkin's lymphoma with a delayed complete response after 6 cycles of A-AVD chemotherapy?

Topics: Hematologic Malignancies • Radiation Oncology • Hodgkin Lymphoma • Hematology

Initial tumor size:18 cm. Partial response was achieved after cycle 2 and cycle 6 of chemotherapy. Complete response (Deauville 2, size: 6 cm) was achieved 7 months after chemotherapy completion.

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

I suppose I have three comments about this question.First, the sensitivity (percentage of true positives) and specificity (percentage of true negatives) are generally higher than the positive predictive value (true positives/all positives) for end-of-treatment PET-CT in lymphoma. In one study, the P...

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