Association of Treatment Intensity With Survival in Older Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hodgkin lymphoma is an aggressive blood cancer that is highly curable in younger patients who receive multiagent chemotherapy. Worse survival in older patients may reflect less-aggressive treatment, competing risks of death, or different disease biological factors.

Objective

To examine the association between treatment intensity and cause-specific mortality among older adults with Hodgkin lymphoma.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a population-based cohort study of patients aged 65 years or older with Medicare Part A and B fee-for-service coverage who received a diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma from 2000 to 2013. The association between treatment intensity and cause-specific mortality was estimated separately for early-stage and advanced-stage diseas

SUBMITTER: Rodday AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531990 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature