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The Management of Hodgkin Lymphoma During Pregnancy

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Although Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) frequently presents in the reproductive years, occurrence concomitant with pregnancy is rare and represents a challenge for treating physicians. The best management requires a multidisciplinary approach combining expertise in medical oncology, high-risk obstetrics, and neonatology ideally coordinated to optimize the mother’s chance of cure and yet allow delivery of a healthy child. A pregnant patient with HL should be staged with minimal use of imaging requiring ionizing radiation and treated in an individualized manner optimally combining the strategies of treatment deferral when appropriate, single-agent vinblastine, and reservation of multiagent chemotherapy for the small minority of patients with aggressive clinical presentation.

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  1. Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Veronika Bachanova

  2. Lymphoma Tumor Group, BC Cancer Agency, 600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5Z 4E6

    Joseph M. Connors

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  1. Klinik I für Innere Medizin, Universität Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, Köln, 50924, Germany

    Andreas Engert

  2. Dept. Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305-5479, California, USA

    Sandra J. Horning

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Bachanova, V., Connors, J.M. (2011). The Management of Hodgkin Lymphoma During Pregnancy. In: Engert, A., Horning, S. (eds) Hodgkin Lymphoma. Hematologic Malignancies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12780-9_16

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