Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Hodgkin's Disease

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.

Timeline

Start

1994-01-25

Primary completion

2011-08-15

Completion

2012-01-06

Publications

• Results Macdonald DA, Ding K, Gospodarowicz MK, Wells WA, Pearcey RG, Connors JM, Winter JN, Horning SJ, Djurfeldt MS, Shepherd LE, Meyer RM. Patterns of disease progression and outcomes in a randomized trial testing ABVD alone for patients with limited-stage Hodgkin lymphoma. Ann Oncol. 2007 Oct;18(10):1680-4. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdm287. Epub 2007 Sep 10.
• Results Macdonald DA, Gospodarowicz MK, Wells WA, et al.: Relapse patterns and subsequent outcomes of patients treated on the NCIC CTG HD.6 (ECOG JHD06) randomized trial evaluating ABVD alone in patients with limited stage Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL). [Abstract] Blood 106 (11): A-817, 2005.
• Results Meyer RM, Gospodarowicz MK, Connors JM, Pearcey RG, Bezjak A, Wells WA, Burns BF, Winter JN, Horning SJ, Dar AR, Djurfeldt MS, Ding K, Shepherd LE; National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Randomized comparison of ABVD chemotherapy with a strategy that includes radiation therapy in patients with limited-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma: National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Jul 20;23(21):4634-42. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.09.085. Epub 2005 Apr 18.
• Results Meyer R, Gospodarowicz M, Connors J, et al.: A randomized phase III comparison of single - modality ABVD with a strategy that includes radiation therapy in patients with early-stage Hodgkin's disease: the HD-6 trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Trial JHD06). [Abstract] Blood 102 (11 Pt 1): A-81, 2003.
• Hay AE, Klimm B, Chen BE, Goergen H, Shepherd LE, Fuchs M, Gospodarowicz MK, Borchmann P, Connors JM, Markova J, Crump M, Lohri A, Winter JN, Dorken B, Pearcey RG, Diehl V, Horning SJ, Eich HT, Engert A, Meyer RM; Conducted by the NCIC Clinical Trials Group (Canada) and German Hodgkin Study Group (GHSG). An individual patient-data comparison of combined modality therapy and ABVD alone for patients with limited-stage Hodgkin lymphoma. Ann Oncol. 2013 Dec;24(12):3065-9. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdt389. Epub 2013 Oct 11.
• Meyer RM, Gospodarowicz MK, Connors JM, Pearcey RG, Wells WA, Winter JN, Horning SJ, Dar AR, Shustik C, Stewart DA, Crump M, Djurfeldt MS, Chen BE, Shepherd LE; NCIC Clinical Trials Group; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. ABVD alone versus radiation-based therapy in limited-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2012 Feb 2;366(5):399-408. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1111961. Epub 2011 Dec 11.

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