“…In this regard, Hodgkin's disease is probably no exception and the occurr ence of second malignancies in this disease has now been the subject of a number of reports [1,2,4,6,9,10,[12][13][14], For example, the occurrence of leukaemia in Hodgkin's disease is now well documented [15]. Howev er, myeloma in established Hodgkin's disease seems to be rare, and we have been able to find only one previous report of this association, in which 2 patients with Hodgkin's disease treated with radiotherapy alone, developed typical myelomatosis [7].…”