[81 cases of Hodgkin's disease treated with extensive radiotherapy, including 65 with primary MOPP chemiotherapy (author's transl)].

Study 81 cases of Hodgkin's disease at stages I, II or III led to the following conclusions from a therapeutic standpoint (in relation to the apparent results obtained): The addition of chemotherapy on the form of three courses of MOPP before irradiation improved the results of the latter on the one hand and, principally, by reducing the number of failures and, secondly, by reducing the complications. The addition of chemoprophylaxis by MOPP in patients in complete remission as a result of initial treatment, involving an association of 3 courses of MOPP followed by radiotherapy, was not shown to be useful. A major factor in prognosis would to be the clinical and radiological situation after the first three courses of MOPP (in the context of combined MOPP and radiotherapy) since, despite the later radiotherapy, numerous failures were noted in the absence of remission after the three MOPP treatments, whilst failure rarely occurred under the opposite set of circumstances. This is important, since modest treatment would seem to suffice in patients reacting well to three initial MOPP treatments, whilst it is essential to reinforce it when this is not the case.