A prospective, longitudinal study involving 590 female patients younger than 18 years at diagnosis who participated in one of five Hodgkin lymphoma treatment studies between June 19, 1978, and July 12, 1995, were the cohort in a study to assess the frequency for parenthood in female survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma. Parenthood was defined as delivery of a liveborn child.
The control group was the German female population age 16-49 years, using data from the 2012 Mikrozensus population survey.
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