High-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of small cell lung carcinoma
- 15 October 1983
- Vol. 52 (8), 1351-1355
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19831015)52:8<1351::aid-cncr2820520802>3.0.co;2-3
Abstract
Fourteen patients with untreated small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were treated initially with 2 chemotherapy courses of cyclophosphamide (1.5 g/m2 days 1–3), 4‐dimethyl epipodophylloxtin (200 mg/m2 days 1–3), vincristine (1.5 mg/m2 days 1 and 3), and with Adriamycin (80 mg/m2 day 1) in 8 patients and without Adriamycin in 6 patients. To modify hematopoietic toxicity from these high doses of chemotherapy, autologous marrow collected and frozen before storage was thawed and infused after each of these high‐dose therapies. After this therapy patients received prophylactic brain irradiation (3000 rad), 4 courses of usual doses of these same drugs and then 5000 rad chest irradiation if there was still evidence of disease (PR) or randomized to radiation if in complete remission (CR). Response rate was high, with 54% CR and 46% PR, a total of 100%. However, a median response duration of 41 weeks and median survival of 56 weeks, are similar to other chemotherapy programs. Toxicity was mild except for cardiac arrhythmias when Adriamycin was included. The reasons for no therapeutic increment are discussed.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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