Table 5.

Results of treatment of advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma with standard or escalated BEACOPP + RT: the German Hodgkin Study Group (GHSG) trial HD9.

COPP/ABVD + RT (A)BEACOPP std esc + RT (B)BEACOPP + RT (C)p(A vs C)
Abbreviations: std, standard; esc, escalated; CR, complete response; FFTF, freedom from treatment failure; IPFP, International Prognostic Factors Project score; NS, not significant; AML/myelodys, acute myelogenous leukemia or myelodysplasia; BEACOPP, bleomycin, etoposide, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone and procarbazine; RT, radiation therapy. 
N 260 469 466  
CR % 84 88 96  
5 y FFTF % 67 75 85 < 0.001 
5 y OS % 79 84 90 0.004 
5 y OS % 
    IPFP 0,1 91 91 95 NS 
    IPFP 2,3 81 90 90 NS 
    IPFP 4–7 57 85 77 < 0.0099 
AML/myelodys (n,%) 1 (0.3) 5 (1.0) 11 (2.3)  
COPP/ABVD + RT (A)BEACOPP std esc + RT (B)BEACOPP + RT (C)p(A vs C)
Abbreviations: std, standard; esc, escalated; CR, complete response; FFTF, freedom from treatment failure; IPFP, International Prognostic Factors Project score; NS, not significant; AML/myelodys, acute myelogenous leukemia or myelodysplasia; BEACOPP, bleomycin, etoposide, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone and procarbazine; RT, radiation therapy. 
N 260 469 466  
CR % 84 88 96  
5 y FFTF % 67 75 85 < 0.001 
5 y OS % 79 84 90 0.004 
5 y OS % 
    IPFP 0,1 91 91 95 NS 
    IPFP 2,3 81 90 90 NS 
    IPFP 4–7 57 85 77 < 0.0099 
AML/myelodys (n,%) 1 (0.3) 5 (1.0) 11 (2.3)  
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