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10 unusual facts about Hodgkin


Apisai Naikatini

In December 2013, he signed a short term deal with French Top 14 side, Brive for the remainder of the 2013–14 Top 14 season, filling in for lock, Olivier Caisso who is fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Daniel M. Buechlein

On January 18, 2008, Buechlein was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, more commonly known as Hodgkin's disease, having experienced heavy fatigue and a swelling under his right arm and then undergoing medical tests on the previous January 13.

Ductopenia

Other causes of ductopenia include failing Liver transplant, Hodgkin's disease, Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD), Sarcoid, Cytomegalovirus infection, HIV and medication toxocity.

Entinostat

There is an ongoing phase II trial studying the effect of entinostat on Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Lucio Rodrigues

In 2007 at only 27 years of age, Lucio discovered that he had a cancer of lymphatic system also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma and had to start a gruelling course of chemotherapy.

Lynden David Hall

In October 2003, Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma; he died on 14 February 2006, at the age of 31, from complications resulting from the stem cell transplant he received in January 2005.

Miss Teen USA 1997

Lauren Petty (New Jersey) was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma afterwards, but eventually survived and became an actress, making guest appearances on several TV shows, as well as a temporary contract appearance on General Hospital.

Mocetinostat

In 2010 favourable results were announced from the phase II trial for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Samuel Wilks

He was a collaborator and biographer of the "Three Great", contemporary physicians who worked at Guy's Hospital, Dr. Thomas Addison, the discoverer of Addison's disease, Dr. Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease and Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Sara K.

Jones died of Hodgkin's lymphoma just shortly after recording and before the release of the album.


Alese Coco

According to the California death certificate, Alese Coco died at UCLA on May 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm from respiratory failure, Aspergillus pneumonia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Bob Matheson

Matheson died on September 5, 1994 at Duke University Hospital from complications due to Hodgkin's disease.

Eliot Hodgkin

Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905–30 May 1987) was an English painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.

Hodgkins, Illinois

The village's name comes from a local landowner and businessman, Jefferson Hodgkins, and is unrelated to the discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Thomas Hodgkin.

Iratumumab

Iratumumab is a human monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of oncological diseases such as relapsed refractory CD30-positive lymphoma including Hodgkin's disease.

Kees Boeke

In 1915 Boeke traveled to Berlin, where he met Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, with whom Hodgkin had been working at the outbreak of war.

Nick Manabat

Cybernary was launched as a back-up story to Jim Lee's hugely successful Deathblow comic series, but Manabat's blossoming career and life were cut short after losing his fight against Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 1995.

Piers Wardle

Fry and the Duchess of Westminster provided much of the sponsorship while the other artists included Gilbert & George, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin and Darren Coffield.

Pieter Klazes Pel

Pel is perhaps best known for his description in 1885 of Pel-Ebstein fever, a cyclical fever that occurs very rarely in individuals who have Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Procarbazine

When used to treat Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL), it is often delivered as part of the BEACOPP regimen that includes Bleomycin, Etoposide, Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide, Vincristine (tradename Oncovin), Prednisone, and Procarbazine.

The first combination chemotherapy developed for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, MOPP also included Procarbazine (ABVD has supplanted MOPP as standard first line treatment for HL, with BEACOPP as an alternative for advanced/unfavorable HL).

Sam Strachan

Medical journal The Lancet featured an article in May 2008 entitled 'Cancer in Medical Dramas', which examined the character's Non-Hodgkin lymphoma storyline.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910, Headington Hill near Oxford – 25 March 1982, Tolo, Greece) was an English Marxist historian of Africa "who did more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" in the UK.

Wanda Beach Murders

In 1963 Helmut Schmidt moved the family to Sydney after contracting Hodgkin's disease and they found a home in the suburb of Ryde.