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Nature Clinical Practice Oncology (2008) 5, 368-369
doi:10.1038/ncponc1153  
Received 21 February 2008 | Accepted 28 March 2008 | Published online: 10 June 2008

There is an Erratum (1 August 2008) associated with this document.

Prognosis and outcomes of lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma

Grace Suh and Anas Younes*

Correspondence *Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Email
 ayounes@mdanderson.org

This article has no abstract so we have provided the first paragraph of the full text.

LPHL is rare, accounting for approximately 400–500 new cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma per year in the US. Owing to its rarity, most information regarding therapy and prognosis is largely obtained retrospectively, from single institution reports and pooled data from multicenter analyses. Furthermore, although LPHL is more similar in pathological and biological features to follicular, B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma than to cHL, patients with LPHL were, until recently, treated in the same manner as those with cHL.

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