Health Care Article of the month
November 2001

Hodgkin's Disease

A Hodgkin's Disease Patients May Be at Higher Risk for Later Cancers. According to researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, individuals who were treated for Hodgkin's disease in childhood are at a higher risk for developing additional malignancies later in life, and should be monitored closely. The researchers, who presented their findings May 2 at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research in San Francisco, found that, on average, persons who had been treated for Hodgkin's disease as children had a nine times greater risk of developing a second cancer than the population as a whole; the risk for some cancers was even higher, with the risk of males developing thyroid cancer 164 times that of a control group. No specific treatment was found to have a significant effect on cancer risk, compared to any other treatment.

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