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Serum levels of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC, CCL17) correlate with disease activity in patients with HL (Weihrauch et?al, 2005; Niens et?al, 2008; Plattel et?al, 2010) and the rate of decrease in serum TARC appears to correlate with response to therapy in some but not all studies. In adults with high-risk HL, the choice of first-line therapy remains controversial. The debate between initial intensification of therapy (��kairos��) versus delayed intensification http://www.selleck.cn/products/ve-821.html of therapy (��chronos��) has not been resolved (Borchmann & Diehl, 2011). In North America, the standard of care continues to be six cycles of ABVD without adjuvant radiation therapy. However, in Germany, the upfront use of dose intensified therapy remains the standard for high-risk HL. The escalated BEACOPP (bleomycin, etoposide, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, procarbazine) regimen has been shown in a large randomized trial by the German Hodgkin Study Group to be more efficacious than COPP (cyclophosphamide,vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone)/ABVD in tumour control and is associated with an 11% improvement http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Vorinostat-saha.html in OS at 10?years (Diehl et?al, 2003; Engert et?al, 2009). Radiation therapy has been administered to patients with bulky disease at diagnosis or in those patients with less than a CR at the end of chemotherapy. More recent trials administer radiation only to those with persistent FDG-PET avid lesions at the end of chemotherapy. Doses utilized continue to be higher than those incorporated in paediatric regimens. Such significant differences in tumour control, and more importantly, OS, have not been confirmed in all trials with escalated BEACOPP in adults. In two other randomized trials using slightly less intensive versions of escalated BEACOPP (four cycles of escalated BEACOPP and two cycles of standard BEACOPP; two cycles of escalated BEACOPP and four cycles of standard BEACOPP) versus ABVD, escalated BEACOPP was not associated with a survival advantage, despite a lower rate of relapse (Federico et?al, 2009; Viviani et?al, 2011). A recent meta-analysis reached the same conclusions (Bauer et?al, 2011). Results http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Cisplatin.html of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 20012 trial comparing escalated BEACOPP to ABVD are still pending. Physicians caring for adults with HL continue to be hesitant to recommend escalated BEACOPP because of toxicity concerns. The escalated BEACOPP regimens is associated with significantly more World Health Organization grade III or IV haematological toxicities (anaemia P?