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Fig. 1. Outline of therapy for study IV (1976-77)<br />

the outcome of standard and high risk patients<br />

entered on study IV. At 3 years the cumulative<br />

complete remission rate was 0.56 + 0.1lfor the<br />

standard risk group and 0.44+0.07 for the<br />

high risk group. Thirty nine patients are still<br />

receiving chemotherapy and in 15 treatment<br />

has recently been stopped (median time off<br />

therapy was 3 months).<br />

11. Study V and LSA 2 L 2 Protocol<br />

New treatment programs were introduced in<br />

1978 with the objective of improving these<br />

results. The LSA 2 L 2 protocol developed by<br />

Wollner et al. (1976) for patients with non­<br />

Hodgkin lymphoma was used for a newly<br />

defined group of high risk patients as described<br />

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