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Thomas Hodgkin, 1798-1866
Hodgkin’s disease
Nowadays Hodgkin lymphoma
• 0.4% of all new cancers
• 400 new cases per year in
NL (16 million inhabitants)
• 67% of all cases below age 45
• Second most common malignancy in
young adults
• The prototype of a curable malignancy