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Cure of Histiocytic Lymphoma
- JOHN E. ULTMANN, M.D.
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The curability of patients with Hodgkin's disease of all stages improved from a 5-year survival rate in 1940 of 6% to a 5-year actuarial estimated survival rate in 1970 of over 75% (1). During this same 30-year period the survival statistics reported for "reticulum cell sarcoma" (the diagnostic entity coded in national statistical analyses before acceptance of the term "histiocytic lymphoma") remained at a dismal 5-year survival rate of 18% or lower (2).
The knowledge gained from the cure of Hodgkin's disease together with new conceptual approaches and the development of new drugs and drug combinations have permitted novel approaches
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Grant support: in part by grant CA-14599, U. S. Public Health Service; the Joanne Heppes Fund, the Goldblatt Brothers Employees Nathan Goldblatt Cancer Research Fund, and the Jean Heiman Fund.
