Overall curable: Hodgkin lymphoma as it is now called is one of our success stories. If it is diagnosed in the early stages, the cure rate is >90%, even late stage disease has cure rates of greater than 80%. In those cases where there is disease recurrence, stem cell transplant has been successfully used to cure many people.
Answered 7/20/2012
6.5k views
Depends: There are many different statistics for hodgkin lymphoma. There are approximately 9, 000 cases diagnosed each year in the U.S., and of those approximately 1, 200 will die from the disease. Here are more data on the statistics: http://seer.Cancer.Gov/statfacts/html/hodg.Html.
Answered 12/6/2012
5.4k views
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your question