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Prognostic Scoring System of Maurcort-Boulch et al for a Patient with Hodgkin's Disease

Purpose: To evaluate a patient with Hodgkin's disease using the prognostic score of Maurcort-Boulch et al.

Description

Maurcort-Boulch et al developed a simple score for staging patients with Hodgkin's disease. This distinguishes 3 risk groups with different prognoses. The authors are from Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Universite Rene Descartes-Paris 5 and Hopital European Georges Pompidou in Paris.


Parameters:

(1) age of the patient in years

(2) number of lymphoid areas involved

(3) systemic symptoms

(4) visceral disease

 

Parameter

Finding

Points

age

< 40 years of age

0

 

>= 40 years of age

1

number of lymphoid areas

1 or 2

0

 

3 or 4

1

 

>= 5

2

systemic symptoms

absent

0

 

present

1

visceral disease

absent

0

 

present

1

 

total score =

= SUM(points for all 4 parameters)

 

Interpretation:

• minimum score: 0

• maximum score: 5

• The higher the score the worse the prognosis.

 

Score

5 Year Event Free Survival

10 Year Overall Survival

0 or 1

91%

94%

2 or 3

78%

76%

4 or 5

54%

53%

 


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ICD-10