The effect of the surgical treatment in the complex management on life expectancy of thymic Hodgkin's lymphoma

The result of treatment of primary Hodgkin's lymphoma lesion of the thymus gland of a 26-year-old patient is presented. At the preoperative stage of examination, “tumor maligna” cells were obtained during puncture of mediastinal formation. The diagnosis is malignant tumor of the mediastinum. Considering this, a surgical treatment was performed-radical removal of the mediastinal tumor. After the study of the postoperative drug, a clinical diagnosis was made: lymphogranulomatosis, a massive (bulky) tumor lesion of the mediastinum, stage IIХ, after surgical treatment. First course of ABVD chemotherapy was performed 28 days after the operation. When performing the second course of chemotherapy according to the same scheme, the patient developed complications in the form of moderate leukocytopenia (leukocytes, 0.9×10⁹/l) and stomatitis. Special treatment was discontinued, and the patient was observed by an oncologist in the polyclinic of an oncological dispensary.

At the next examination, which was performed 11 months later, a relapse of the disease was identified. Considering the preservation of persistent leukopenia (leukocytes, 3.0×10⁹/l), it was decided to conduct six courses of ABVD polychemotherapy with prednisone, against the background of G-CSF. At this stage of oncology, the main method of treating Hodgkin's lymphoma is chemo-hormone therapy in combination with radiation therapy. The performed non-standard complex treatment is radical surgical removal of a mediastinal tumor followed by polychemotherapy. It allowed 4 years after the completion of treatment to know motherhood, which did not affect the patient's health. As indicated by the long relapse, free period of the disease is 16 years, and life expectancy is 18 years.