Early stage ovarian cancer: a randomized clinical trial comparing whole abdominal radiotherapy, melphalan, and intraperitoneal chromic phosphate: a National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group report
Autor: | D. J. Klaassen, J Carmichael, D. A. Boyes, W Shelley, Robert Fraser, M Levitt, A Gerulath, Y Methot, M. E. Kirk, A Starreveld |
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Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Melphalan Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Urology Phosphates Random Allocation Chromium Compounds medicine Humans Survival analysis Ovarian Neoplasms Clinical Trials as Topic Chemotherapy Acute leukemia Performance status business.industry Proportional hazards model Prognosis medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Surgery Radiation therapy Oncology Female business Ovarian cancer Phosphorus Radioisotopes medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Oncology. 6:1254-1263 |
ISSN: | 1527-7755 0732-183X |
DOI: | 10.1200/jco.1988.6.8.1254 |
Popis: | Two hundred fifty-seven eligible patients with stage I, IIA "high risk" ovarian carcinoma and IIB, IIIO (disease confined to pelvis), were randomized to either total abdominal radiotherapy (arm A) 2,250 rad in 20 fractions (107 patients), melphalan (arm B) 8 mg/m2/d X 4 every 4 weeks X 18 courses (106 patients), or intraperitoneal chromic phosphate (arm C) 10 to 20 mCi (44 patients). All patients were initially treated with pelvic radiotherapy; arm A, 2,250 rad in ten fractions; and arms B and C, 4,500 rad in 20 fractions. Entry to arm C was discontinued early because of toxicity. In a multifactor analysis using proportional hazards models, no significant difference in survival was observed although there was a marginally significant difference in disease-free survival (P = .015) with arm B being superior to arm A. Stage (P less than .0001), grade (P less than .0001), and histology (P less than .008) were predictors of survival in the multifactor analysis. Performance status, age, and residual disease were significant predictors in the single factor analysis but were not predictive when correction was made for the effects of stage, grade, and histology. Five-year survival rates are 62% for arm A, 61% for arm B, and 66% for arm C. Median duration of follow-up is 8 years. Long-term complications of radiotherapy were seen in 19 patients on arm A, 11 on arm B, and 11 on arm C. Four patients who had received melphalan developed either a myelodysplastic syndrome or acute leukemia. Violations in covering the whole abdominal target volume were correlated with survival. |
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