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Health Encyclopedia: Hodgkin's Disease Highlights

Highlights


Hodgkins Disease and Long-Term Complications

  • Survivors of childhood Hodgkins disease face long-term health complications from their cancer treatments. A 2006 study in the New England Journal of Medicine tracked 10,000 survivors of childhood cancers over the course of 30 years. Survivors of Hodgkins disease had among the highest risk of developing secondary cancers and heart disease several decades after treatment.
  • The researchers recommend in particular that female patients who had chest...
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Expert & Community Posts

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Prednisone, the Dirty Little Secret, Becomes More Respectable
By Mark Borigini, M.D. , Health Expert

...very strong that a drug such as prednisone given along with a drug such as methotrexate can... Read more »

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Diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Ten Years Later
By Cathee McKeown , Health Expert

...Rheumatoid Arthritis, I really had no idea of the long term affects of this disease. In the... Read more »

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What Is It Like to Take Oral Prednisone?
By Merely Me , Health Expert

...agitation, and depression.   If you take them for long periods of time in high doses, you might... Read more »

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Steroids Get a Boost from New Research
By Christine Miller , Health Expert

...prescribing them at any level, low or high, over the long-term. But after considering all of... Read more »

Health Guide

Hodgkin's Disease: Other Treatments
...developing secondary cancers such as leukemia. Patients who are treated with BEACOPP should receive long-term follow-up care to monitor for side effects from this therapy.Stanford V (Seven drugs... Read more »
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Treatment for Severe SLE
...(Decadron).Some people need to take oral prednisone for only a short time; others may require it for a long duration. An intravenous administration of methylprednisolone using "pulse" therapy for... Read more »
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Treatment
...of the jointPreserve movementTo be as inexpensive and as free from side effects as possible over the long-termDrug Categories Used for Rheumatoid ArthritisThe drug categories used for RA... Read more »
Asthma Treatment
...studies, most patients do not discriminate between medications that provide rapid short-term relief and long-term symptom control.Medications for asthma fall into two categories:Rescue Medication.... Read more »
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Treatment to Achieve Remission
...reported that the most effective regimen for many children uses dexamethasone after the first month with a longer duration for asparaginase (30 rather than the standard 20 weeks.Drugs Used for... Read more »

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...doctor for more details. If you take prednisone for long-term treatment, wear or carry... Read more »

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...doctor for more details. If you take prednisone for long-term treatment, wear or carry... Read more »

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...corticosteroid medications (e.g., prednisone) for long periods. This medication works by... Read more »

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