TREATMENT OF LOCALLY UNRESECTABLE CANCER OF THE STOMACH AND PANCREAS - A RANDOMIZED COMPARISON OF 5-FLUOROURACIL ALONE WITH RADIATION PLUS CONCURRENT AND MAINTENANCE 5-FLUOROURACIL - AN EASTERN-COOPERATIVE-ONCOLOGY-GROUP STUDY
TREATMENT OF LOCALLY UNRESECTABLE CANCER OF THE STOMACH AND PANCREAS - A RANDOMIZED COMPARISON OF 5-FLUOROURACIL ALONE WITH RADIATION PLUS CONCURRENT AND MAINTENANCE 5-FLUOROURACIL - AN EASTERN-COOPERATIVE-ONCOLOGY-GROUP STUDY
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DOI:
10.1200/jco.1985.3.3.373
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
45.3
通讯作者:
MOERTEL, CG
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作者:
KLAASSEN, DJ;MACINTYRE, JM;MOERTEL, CG
A total of 191 patients, with pathologically confirmed locally unresectable adenocarcinoma of the stomach (57 patients) and pancreas (91 patients), were randomly allocated to therapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) alone, 600 mg/m2 i.v. once weekly, or to radiation therapy, 4000 rad, plus adjuvant 5-FU, 600 mg/m2 i.v., for the first 3 days of radiotherapy, with follow-up maintenance 5-FU, 600 mg/m2, weekly. Forty-three patients (22%) could not be analyzed because of ineligibility or cancellation; thus, 148 patients were evaluable. The median survival time was similar for both treatment programs and for both types of primary carcinoma, and was as follows: gastric primary carcinoma, 5-FU, 9.3 mo.; 5-FU plus radiotherapy, 8.2 mo.; pancreatic primary carcinoma, 5-FU, 8.2 mo.; 5-FU plus radiotherapy, 8.3 mo. Substantially more toxicity was experienced by patients treated with the combined modality arm than by those patients receiving 5-FU alone. Severe or worse toxicity experienced by patients with gastric primary carcinoma treated by 5-FU was 19%, and the combined modality arm was 31%. The toxicity experienced by patients with pancreatic primary carcinoma treated with 5-FU was 27%, and the combined modality arm was 51%. Significant prognostic variables included: wt loss in stomach-cancer patients; performance status; degree of anaplasia, and reduced appetite in pancreas-cancer patients.