Chemotherapeutic implications of staging in Hodgkin's disease.

The chemotherapeutic implications of staging are the following, (a) As both radiotherapeutic and chemotherapeutic treatment programs become more aggressive, the decision as to what stage a patient resides in becomes more important since both programs may be mutually exclusive, (Ã ̈)More complete approaches to staging are yielding previously unappreciated areas of disease involvement. More and more patients are exhibiting less and less localized disease. The implication may be that Hodgkin's disease, particularly in reference to splenic