Low-dose isotretinoin versus beta-carotene to prevent oral carcinogenesis: Long-term follow-up
Low-dose isotretinoin versus beta-carotene to prevent oral carcinogenesis: Long-term follow-up
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10.1093/jnci/89.3.257
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1997-02-05
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Lippman, SM
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Papadimitrakopoulou, VA;Hong, WK;Lippman, SM
In 1993, we reported the results of the first randomized maintenance chemoprevention trial in oral premalignancy (1). In that study, 70 patients with advanced oral premalignant lesions underwent 3 months of induction therapy with high-dose isotretinoin (1.5 mg/kg per day), followed by 9 months of maintenance therapy with ß-carotene or lowdose isotretinoin in 59 patients with responding or stable oral premalignant lesions. Thirty-three of 59 patients received ß-carotene (30 mg/day) and 26 of 59 patients received low-dose isotretinoin (0.5 mg/kg per day). Lowdose isotretinoin was well tolerated and more effective than ß-carotene: the 12-month oral premalignant lesion progression rate was significantly lower with isotretinoin than with ß-carotene (8% versus 55%)(1). Our prior 3-month trial (2) proved that high-dose isotretinoin was effective in reversing oral premalignant lesions, but with substantial toxicity and high relapse rate upon discontinuation, providing the rationale for the maintenance study.With a median follow-up of 66 months, we now report long-term head and neck cancer rates from this maintenance oral premalignancy study (1). Overall, in situ or invasive carcinoma developed in 24% of the patients (17 of 70), an annual rate of 5.8%. Invasive squamous cell carcinoma developed in two of 11 patients who received induc-