Treatment Options for Primary Progressive/Recurrent Hodgkin Lymphoma in Children and Adolescents

Treatment of primary progressive or recurrent childhood Hodgkin lymphoma may include the following:

• Chemotherapy with low-dose radiation therapy to involved areas for stage I or stage II non-bulky disease. Adolescent patients who have reached full growth may be treated with standard-dose radiation therapy.
• High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplant with or without radiation therapy.
• Monoclonal antibody therapy with or without chemotherapy.

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent/refractory childhood Hodgkin lymphoma. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.