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- Investigational
- • Chemotherapy is under clinical evaluation, and a variety of drugs have been found to be useful in patients who
- have residual or recurrent disease following surgery or radiation therapy . The combination of cisplatin
- doxorubicin + vincristine + cyclophosphamide produced a 91 percent response rate (47 percent complete) in one
- study.
- • In one trial, almost half of the patients treated with a four-drug combination of vincristine + cyclophosphamide
- + lomustine + prednisone had complete responses. The combination of cisplatin + doxorubicin +
- cyclophosphamide has produced a 70 percent remission rate.
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