New Scoring System Devised for Youth with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

New Scoring System Devised for Youth with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

SAN DIEGO – A simple scoring system identified a subset of young patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who are predicted to have an event-free survival rate of less than 80%. The system, known as the Childhood Hodgkin International Prognostic Score (CHIPS), found that four factors were predictive of worse event-free survival: stage IV disease, large mediastinal…
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