OBJECTIVETo investigate the clinical characteristics, pathologic types and prognostic factors of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL).

METHODSRetrospective analyses of clinical data of 62 HL patients, including 45 from Peking University third hospital and 17 from Shanxi Dayi hospital.

RESULTSSixty-two HL patients accounted for 5.66% of the total newly diagnosed patients with lymphoma (45/795) in the period with a ratio of male:female as 2.1:1. All the pathological types were classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), including 33 cases (53.2%) of nodular sclerosis type (NS) and 19 cases (30.6%) of mixed cell type (MC). Of the 56 cases followed up, the total responsive rate was 92.9% , and 2- , 3- and 5- year overall survival (OS) rates were 97.7%, 92.2% and 80.5% respectively with the median OS as 45 (8-184) months. Analyses of the prognostic factors indicated that the involvement of spleen(P=0.042)and German Hodgkin Study Group(GHSG) risk score (P=0.002) were poor factors with statistic significance.

CONCLUSIONHL is one of the curable malignant tumors, 5-year OS rate was 80.5% in this group. After recurrence, part of patients developed slowly and could be salvaged with second-line therapy with high remission rate. GHSG scoring system and involvement of spleen could predict the prognosis in HL setting.