“…Early studies reported a higher frequency of relapse and lower survival rates in HD patients who were pregnant (Southman et al, 1956). Later publications rejected this conclusion, claiming that pregnancy neither exacerbates the disease nor adversely affects survival (Stewart & Monto, 1952;Riva et al, 1953;Barry et al, 1962;Gobbi et al, 1984;Tawil et al, 1984;Nisce et al, 1986). The view that pregnancy does not affect the course of Hodgkin's disease and the disease does not affect the course of pregnancy has become widely accepted and repeatedly stressed in reviews and textbooks (Ward & Weiss, 1989;Sutcliffe & Chapman, 1985;Becker, 1968).…”