Introduction:

Hodgkin's lymphoma has evolved to be one of the cancers with highest possibilities of cure.

Objective:

To characterize the behavior of the Hodgkin’s lymphoma disease in adult patients.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and retrospective study was carried out. It included 75 adult patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma attended in the Institute of Hematology and Immunology since January 1987 to January of 2017.

Results:

64 % of the patients were male; the white color of skin and the group from 18 to 38 years predominated, with 85.3 % and 68 % respectively. Patients without comorbidity prevailed, and those who had a good status performance, representing the 65.3 % and 93.3 % respectively. The 52 % of patients were in stage III at diagnosis, the group with advanced favorable disease was predominant, with 61.3 % of the cases. The most frequent histological type was nodular sclerosis with 48 patients; and ABVD protocol was used more often, achieving 92 % of complete remission. Twenty percent of the patients died and 18.7 % relapsed. The overall survival of the patients at 2, 5 and 10 years was 93 %, 83 % and 80 % respectively. The progression-free survival at of 5 and 10 years was 82 % and 73 % respectively.

Conclusions:

The overall survival and the progression-free survival of patients were high, and patients treated with the combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy showed a significantly better overall survival.

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