Dr. David Straus: Emerging Developments in Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Dr. David Straus: Emerging Developments in Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Interview by L Scott Zoeller
20110627
2011 Jul 27
OncologySTAT Editorial Team
Dr. David Straus: Emerging Developments in Hodgkin's Lymphoma
OncologySTAT Editorial Team. 2011 Jul 27, Interview by L Scott Zoeller
Abstract
David Straus, MD, is Attending Physician, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. OncologySTAT: Dr. Straus, would you discuss how prognosis and treatment have evolved over the past few decades for patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL)? Would you talk about the use of chemotherapy and also the role of radiation therapy for patients with early- vs late-stage disease?Dr. Straus: Radiation oncology provided the first real breakthrough in treatment in the 1930s, when a Swiss...