Hodgkin's lymphoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

D. A. Eichenauer1, A. Engert1, M. André2, M. Federico3, T. Illidge4, M. Hutchings5, & M. Ladetto6 on behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* First Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne and German Hodgkin Study Group (GHSG), Cologne, Germany; CHU Dinant-Godinne, UCL Namur, Yvoir, Belgium; Department of Oncology, Hematology and Respiratory Diseases, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Divisione di Ematologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy

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