Classical staging of Hodgkin's disease is inappropriate for selecting patients for clinical trials of intensive therapy: the case for the objective use of prognostic factor information in addition to classical staging

MeSH terms

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
• Child
• Clinical Trials as Topic / methods*
• Hodgkin Disease / diagnosis
• Hodgkin Disease / drug therapy*
• Hodgkin Disease / pathology
• Humans
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasm Staging
• Prognosis