Key Takeaways
- 15% of Hodgkin lymphoma cases are nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL)
- CD15 is expressed in a majority of classical Hodgkin lymphoma cases as assessed by immunohistochemistry
- FOXP3 expression is reported in tumor microenvironment analyses of Hodgkin lymphoma, with FOXP3+ regulatory T cells commonly enriched in affected tissue
- Roughly 70–80% of patients with early-stage favorable classical Hodgkin lymphoma receive ABVD or abbreviated variants per historical guideline-based approaches
- PD-1 inhibitors (nivolumab and pembrolizumab) are recommended options for relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma after prior therapies in clinical guidelines
- Interim PET is used after 2 cycles of chemotherapy in many early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma risk-adapted trial designs
- In the same pembrolizumab trial, 17% of patients achieved a complete response (CR) in relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma
- In the nivolumab study for relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, 8% of patients achieved CR
- In relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, brentuximab vedotin has demonstrated activity in both transplant-eligible and transplant-ineligible settings in clinical trials
- $9,000 average out-of-pocket medical costs per year for people with cancer in the United States were reported in a population-based study
- In a 2018 analysis, 19% of privately insured patients reported cost-related medication nonadherence for cancer drugs
- In 2022, the average commercial cancer-drug cost-sharing burden was reported as high in claims-based analyses, with substantial variation by plan and therapy
- In 2017, classical Hodgkin lymphoma was responsible for a large share of Hodgkin lymphoma diagnoses in incidence datasets summarized by IARC
- GLOBOCAN fact sheet reports Hodgkin lymphoma deaths globally for the latest available year in that dataset
- 0.2 per 100,000 age-standardized rate is the 2020 global mortality of Hodgkin lymphoma (all ages, both sexes), expressed as an estimate in GLOBOCAN 2020
Early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma is highly curable, while advanced and relapsed disease increasingly uses PD-1 and brentuximab.
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