METHOD OF ESTIMATING EFFICIENCY OF TREATING PATIENTS WITH HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61B10/00 G01N33/50 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to biochemical investigations in oncology, and can be used in treatment of Hodgkin's lymphomas with primary drug resistance of tumour to standard schemes of drug intervention. Novelty and essence of investigation lies in the following: in patients with Hodgkin/s lymphoma at treatment stages by radioimmune method determined is content in blood of total and free thyroxine, coefficient of ratio of concentrations total thyroxine/free thyroxine is determined and if its values are within 8.4-11.2 conclusion about absence of clinical effect of anti-tumour therapy is made, if coefficient values are within 14.2-22.8, conclusion about presence of clinical effect of treatment is made.

EFFECT: laboratory biochemical analysis determines clinical efficiency of the method or its absence during treatment procedures in patients with application of standard chemichal therapy, autolymphochemical therapy and is valuable laboratory test for determination of treatment efficiency and further tactics of patients monitoring.

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