Hodgkin's disease in children

Abstract

Hodgkin's disease occurs with comparative rarity in children. Diagnosis depends on biopsy, and the blood picture is not diagnostic. It has been possible to follow seven of the thirteen cases admitted to this hospital in the past ten years. Six of these are dead after an average of nineteen months from onset of symptoms. The seventh is still under treatment. Treatment consists in X-ray therapy, the aim being to obtain as long remissions as possible. Although cures have been reported by some authors, none has occurred in cases treated in the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, in the past ten years.