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Table 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment

From: Clinical outcome of breast cancer occurring after treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma: case-control analysis

 

No. of patients

%

Modality

  

   RT only

14

50

   RT + CT

14

50

RT machines *

  

   Van de Graff

8

32

   Linear accelerator 4 MV

1

4

   Linear accelerator 6 MV

5

16

   Linear accelerator 10 MV

12

48

Dose to mediastinum (Gy) ¶

  

   None ‡

1

3.7

   20 –40

14

51.8

   ≥40

12

44.5

RT field

  

   Standard mantle

9

28.6

   Modified mantle

2

10.7

   TLI/STLI§

16

57.2

   IF

1

3.5

  1. Abbreviations: RT, radiotherapy; STLI, subtotal lymphoid irradiation; TLI, total lymphoid irradiation; IF, involved field, CT, chemotherapy.
  2. * Data were not available for two patients.
  3. ¶ Dose was unknown for one patient.
  4. ‡ This patient received only involved field RT to left neck and supraclavicular lymph nodes.
  5. § One of these patients also received unilateral lung irradiation to 15 Gy.
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Radiation Oncology

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