Radiation therapy in Hodgkin's disease - decades of steady progress.

The treatment of lymphoproliferative diseases has changed dramatically during the last decades. The improved therapeutic results for this disease group are included among the most important achievements of modern oncohaematology. They are due to better disease staging, use of new markers for risk assessment, patient stratification in separate risk groups, implementation of highly effective chemotherapy (CHT), progress of targeted therapies using monoclonal antibodies, proteasome inhibitors, modern radiation therapy (RT) and supportive care.