Addition of either lonidamine or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor does not improve survival in early breast cancer patients treated with high-dose epirubicin and cyclophosphamide
Addition of either lonidamine or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor does not improve survival in early breast cancer patients treated with high-dose epirubicin and cyclophosphamide
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DOI:
10.1200/jco.2003.03.034
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发表时间:
2003-09-15
影响因子:
45.3
通讯作者:
Marolla, P
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作者:
Papaldo, P;Lopez, M;Marolla, P
Purpose : Lonidamine (LND) can enhance the activity of anthracyclines in patients with metastatic breast cancer. A multicenter, prospective, randomized trial was designed to determine whether the association of LND with high-dose epirubicin plus cyclophosphamide (EC) could improve disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with early breast cancer (BC) compared with EC alone. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was added to maintain the EC dose-intensity.Patients and Methods: From October 1991 to April 1994, 506 patients with stage I/II BC Were randomly assigned to four groups: (A) epirubicin 120 mg/m(2) and cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m(2) administered intravenously on day 1 every 21 days for four cycles (124 patients); (B) EC plus LND 450 mg/d administered orally (125 patients); (C) EC plus G-CSF administered subcutaneously (129 patients); (D) EC plus LND plus G-CSF (128 patients).Results: Median follow-up was 55 months. Five-year DFS rate was similar for LND (B+D groups; 69.6%) versus non-LND arms (A+C groups; 70.3%) and G-CSF (C+D groups; 67.2%) versus non-G-CSF arms (A+B groups; 72.9%). Five-year overall survival (OS) was comparable in LND (79.1%) versus nonAND arms (81.3%) and in G-CSF (80.6%) versus non-G-CSF arms (79.6%). DFS and OS distributions in LND and G-CSF arms did not change according to tumor size, node, receptor, and menopausal status. G-CSF dramatically reduced hematologic toxicity without having a significant impact on dose-intensity (98.1% v 95.5% for C+D and A+B groups, respectively).Conclusion: EC is active and well tolerated in patients with. early breast cancer. The addition of LND or G-CSF does not improve DFS or OS. (C) 2003 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.