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Radiation Therapy in Hodgkin Disease: Why Risk a Pyrrhic Victory?
Correspondence to: Dan L. Longo, MD, National Institute on Aging, 5600 Nathan Shock Dr., Box 9, Baltimore, MD 21224-6825 (e-mail: longod@grc.nia.nih.gov).
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Pyrrhus became King of Epirus in Northern Greece in 306 BC. He was a brilliant warrior and strategist; for example, he employed elephants in his attack force 60 years before Hannibal's famous use of these animals in the Second Punic War. In 280 BC, he invaded Italy and won a great battle at Heraclea but suffered enormous losses of men in his army. A few months later, in 279 BC, he won a second major battle at Asculum, again enduring severe and irreplaceable casualties. After being complimented on his success by one of his men, he is said to have responded, "Another such victory and we are undone." Thus, through the centuries the term "Pyrrhic victory" has been used to mean a conquest won at too great a cost for the victor.
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