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Hodgkin disease: the sword of Damocles resheathed

Comment on Straus et al, page [3483][1] ABVD chemotherapy alone is as effective as ABVD plus radiation therapy in early-stage Hodgkin disease; thus, the majority of patients are curable without being exposed to the life-long, life-threatening risks of therapeutic radiation. Damocles, a courtier

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