PROLONGED SURVIVAL (17 YEARS) IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA AFTER THERAPY FOR HODGKINS-DISEASE

A case of secondary chronic myelogenous leukemia after successful ther apy for Hodgkin's disease is reported. The patient was diagnosed as ha ving stage IIIA Hodgkin's disease, at the age of 33. He underwent stag ing laparosplenectomy and was treated with radiotherapy plus chemother apy. Forty three months after the diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease, a Ph iladelphia-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia developed. It require d periodic chemotherapy and each time a remission, lasting several mon ths (up to 14 months), was obtained. The disease had an unusually prol onged clinical course, and the blast crisis, of lymphoid type, occurre d only 17 years later.