home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- 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 + Cytoxan 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 + Cytoxan +
- lomustine + prednisone had complete responses. The combination of cisplatin + Adriamycin + Cytoxan has
- produced a 70 percent remission rate.
-