Hodgkin's Disease

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Treatment

Early-stage HD

If Hodgkin's disease (HD) is in its early stages and disease is contained above the diaphragm, the large abdominal muscle that controls breathing, radiation therapy typically has been the treatment of choice (see Radiation). External beam radiation (delivered outside of the body by a machine) usually is aimed at the mantle field - the neck, chest, and lymph nodes under the arms. Occasionally, the patient's condition calls for total nodal irradiation - that is, rad...Read the full article