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Negative PET: no guarantee of good prognosis in Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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This work was financially supported by an Alpe d’HuZes/Dutch Cancer Society Bas Mulder Award for T.C.K. (grant number 5409). Data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of data, writing of the paper, and decision to submit were left to the authors’ discretion and were not influenced by Alpe d’HuZes/Dutch Cancer Society.

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    Hugo J. A. Adams & Thomas C. Kwee

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Adams, H.J.A., Kwee, T.C. Negative PET: no guarantee of good prognosis in Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Ann Hematol 94, 1609–1610 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-015-2424-x

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