Alcohol pain in Hodgkin's disease

Abstract

Thirty‐five patients with Hodgkin's disease experienced alcohol pain. Nodular sclerosis was the predominant histological grade (77%). Alcohol pain was associated with other factors generally considered to indicate an unfavorable prognosis—systemic symptoms, Stage II disease with multiple site involvement, Stage III or IV disease. Enlargement and a rise in temperature of lymph nodes were both noted at the time of alcohol pain. Objective evidence of disease was either present at or appeared at the site of pain in the majority (86%) of patients with this symptom. Copyright © 1976 American Cancer Society