[Comments about use of polychemotherapy MOPP associated with radiotherapy in the treatment of early stages of Hodgkin's disease. Preliminary report of 58 patients (author's transl)].

58 patients with early stages of Hodgkin's disease (I, II, III l) were treated by 3 courses of MOPP chemotherapy followed by extended field irradiation. After 31 to 72 months follow up 87,8 p. 100 of patients are alive in complete remission. The study of the group deserves two comments: 1. Adjuvant MOPP polychemotherapy may be useful, only when a complete response is obtained after 3 courses, when it is so a complete remission of long duration may be hoped in nearly 100 p. 100 of cases. 2 After complete remission induced by combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy, maintenance chemotherapy seems to be useless.