1992-06-01
Weekly low-dose mitoxantrone plus doxorubicin as second-line chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
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Breast Cancer Research and Treatment , Volume 21 - Issue 2 p. 133- 138
Weekly low dose mitoxantrone (3 mg/m2) plus doxorubicin (8 mg/m2) was administered as second-line chemotherapy to 33 patients with advanced breast cancer. Four out of 28 evaluable patients (14%) obtained a partial response with a median duration of 34 weeks (range 18-67+ weeks), while 8 patients (29%) showed stable disease with a median duration of 28 weeks (range 11+-60 weeks). Gastrointestinal toxicity and alopecia were mild. Grade II and III leukopenia occurred in 63% of the courses without serious infectious disease. Four patients experienced an asymptomatic drop of 16-20% in the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after relatively low cumulative doses of each drug, and one patient with a history of pericarditis carcinomatosa and mediastinal irradiation developed a heart failure. In conclusion, this second-line combination treatment had moderate activity in breast cancer and caused only few subjective side effects, especially with respect to gastrointestinal symptoms.
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| doi.org/10.1007/BF01836959, hdl.handle.net/1765/72454 | |
| Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | |
| Organisation | Department of Medical Oncology |
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Bontenbal, M., Planting, A., Rodenburg, C., Dees, A., Verweij, J., Bartels, C., … Klijn, J. (1992). Weekly low-dose mitoxantrone plus doxorubicin as second-line chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 21(2), 133–138. doi:10.1007/BF01836959 |
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