Prognostic importance of pruritus in Hodgkin's disease
A. S. Feiner, T. Mahmood and S. F. Wallner
In 1971 participants in the Ann Arbor Conference on Hodgkin's disease
thought that pruritus had no independent prognostic importance. We reviewed
our series of patients with Hodgkin's disease and found six patients in
whom severe itching was a major clinical problem. When compared with
similarly treated patients without pruritus, these patients appeared to
have more-aggressive disease. Severe itching, alone or with B symptoms,
needs further study, since it may presage a poor prognosis.
