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Optimizing therapy in advanced stage Hodgkin Lymphoma

Optimizing therapy in advanced stage Hodgkin Lymphoma
Optimizing therapy in advanced stage Hodgkin Lymphoma
The treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma has evolved continuously since the introduction of extended-field radiotherapy in the 1960s to involved-field then involved-node radiotherapy, multi-agent chemotherapy, combined chemo-radiotherapy, risk-adapted and response-adapted modulation, and most recently, introduction of antibody-drug conjugates and immune checkpoint-blocking antibodies. These changes have translated into progressively increasing cure rates, so that 10-year survival figures now exceed 80%, compared to less than 50% 40 years ago. The challenge now is how to improve upon success while maintaining, or if possible improving, the quality of life for survivors. Steering between under-treatment, with the risk of avoidable recurrences, and over-treatment, with the risk of unnecessary toxicity, remains complex since control of the lymphoma and the probability of survival are no longer closely linked. This requires trials with long follow-up and continuous re-appraisal of the interaction between the illness; the method used to define risk, and the type of treatment involved. One important factor in this is age: outcomes in older patients have not improved at the same rate as those in the population under 60, reflecting the need for different approaches. Recently, treatment has moved from being primarily risk-based, using baseline characteristics such as anatomical stage and severity of the illness, to a more dynamic approach which takes account of the response to therapy, using functional imaging to make an early appraisal, with the option to modulate subsequent treatment. The results of several trials indicate that this has advantages, but that a combination of risk- and response-adaptation is probably ideal.
0006-4971
1679-1688
Lim, Sean
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Johnson, Peter
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Lim, Sean
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Johnson, Peter
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Lim, Sean and Johnson, Peter (2018) Optimizing therapy in advanced stage Hodgkin Lymphoma. Blood, 131 (15), 1679-1688. (doi:10.1182/blood-2017-09-772640).

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Abstract

The treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma has evolved continuously since the introduction of extended-field radiotherapy in the 1960s to involved-field then involved-node radiotherapy, multi-agent chemotherapy, combined chemo-radiotherapy, risk-adapted and response-adapted modulation, and most recently, introduction of antibody-drug conjugates and immune checkpoint-blocking antibodies. These changes have translated into progressively increasing cure rates, so that 10-year survival figures now exceed 80%, compared to less than 50% 40 years ago. The challenge now is how to improve upon success while maintaining, or if possible improving, the quality of life for survivors. Steering between under-treatment, with the risk of avoidable recurrences, and over-treatment, with the risk of unnecessary toxicity, remains complex since control of the lymphoma and the probability of survival are no longer closely linked. This requires trials with long follow-up and continuous re-appraisal of the interaction between the illness; the method used to define risk, and the type of treatment involved. One important factor in this is age: outcomes in older patients have not improved at the same rate as those in the population under 60, reflecting the need for different approaches. Recently, treatment has moved from being primarily risk-based, using baseline characteristics such as anatomical stage and severity of the illness, to a more dynamic approach which takes account of the response to therapy, using functional imaging to make an early appraisal, with the option to modulate subsequent treatment. The results of several trials indicate that this has advantages, but that a combination of risk- and response-adaptation is probably ideal.

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 October 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 April 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 418601
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/418601
ISSN: 0006-4971
PURE UUID: 604d7f21-651c-40f6-864d-002938420067
ORCID for Peter Johnson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2306-4974

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Date deposited: 12 Mar 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:17

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