DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or Hodgkin's disease Diffuse small cell (i.e., chronic lymphocytic leukemia, small lymphocytic, immunocytoma) Follicular Mantle cell Peripheral T cell Diffuse large B cell Leukemic (i.e., lymphoblastic, Burkitt's) First relapse or first progression after responding to a salvage regimen and high dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation (second remission) Response of greater than 50% of tumor mass decrease observed at time of progression Prior high dose chemotherapy plus autologous stem cell transplantation as first line therapy allowed