© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 21, 1890,
November 3, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
BOOK REVIEW |
Hodgkin's Disease
Peter M. Mauch, James O. Armitage, Volker Diehl, Richard T. Hoppe, Lawrence M. Weiss, eds. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999. 832 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 0-7817-1502-4.
Correspondence to: Eric J. Seifter, M.D., F.A.C.P., 10755 Falls Rd., Suite 200, Lutherville, MD 21093.
Dr. Henry S. Kaplan, as chairman of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University (CA),
created the first definitive textbook on the subject of Hodgkin's disease. A generation of
oncologists were nurtured on the biologic and therapeutic principles espoused by Dr. Kaplan in
his 1972 first edition. Copious illustrations, diagrams, and reams of data were summarized to
support the concept of lymph node contiguity that