Is higher income and educational status associated with poorer outcome in patients with Hodgkin's disease?

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the impact of socioeconomic status on relapse-free survival (RFS) in patients with Hodgkin's disease.

Methods: A number of factors were analyzed for their impact on relapse-free and overall survival in Hodgkin's disease using Cox regression. These factors included socioeconomic status (as defined by education and income), different treatment modalities and established clinical risk factors [e.

Longer failure-free survival interval of Epstein-Barr virus-associated classical Hodgkin's lymphoma: a single-institution study.

We analyzed Epstein-Barr virus association in classical Hodgkin's lymphoma from a single center in Austria with special emphasis on the latent membrane protein1 gene configuration and clinical outcome. All 119 (65 male, 54 female) patients were treated from 1974 to 1999 in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Innsbruck, Austria. The mean follow-up time was 122 months (range, 3-333 mo).

Prognostic significance of CD20 expression in classical Hodgkin lymphoma: a clinicopathological study of 119 cases.

Purpose: Recent evidence has demonstrated that classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) originates from mature germinal center B cells. However, only approximately 25% of cHLs express the classical B-cell marker CD20. There is very little, and controversial, information on the prognostic significance of CD20 expression in cHL with regard to failure-free (FFS) and overall survival (OS).