Hodgkin's disease in Jamaica: changing patterns in histological subtypes

ABSTRACT

Over a ten year period January, 1970 to July, 1979, 34 cases of Hodgkin's disease were reviewed at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Nodular sclerosis (NS) was the most frequent subtype followed by mixed cellularity (MC). There were no patients with lymphocyte depletion (LD) type NS occurred most commonly in the 15 - 29 age group while MC was relatively evenly distributed among the age groups. These findings are at a variance with an earlier report from our institution which indicated that MC was the most frequent subtype (AU)