Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Hodgkin's Disease
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-01-06
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so
they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to damage tumor cells.
Combining more than one drug or combining chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more
tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of radiation therapy, with
or without chemotherapy, with chemotherapy alone in treating patients with stage I or stage
IIA Hodgkin's disease.