The paper is concerned with some data on the pregnancy and delivery of 78 patients with Hodgkin's disease as well as on the condition of 89 infants born to them following radiation and combined treatment. It was established that pregnancy and delivery in most of the women were normal, the infants' psychomotor development (at the age of 1 to 14) was in accordance with age.
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