Abstract:
:Several new antimetabolites have been evaluated in clinical trials in recent years. Those with the most promising activity include the structurally related purine analogs fludarabine, 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine, and 2'-deoxycoformycin. These compounds have shown impressive activity against a broad spectrum of indolent lymphoproliferative disorders, including hairy-cell leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. They may also be useful in the treatment of acute leukemias. In contrast, they lack activity against common solid tumors. They have been generally well tolerated in large clinical trials; however, each of them is myelosuppressive and immunosuppressive. It is unlikely that any one of these drugs, when used as a single agent, will provide optimal therapy for any disease other than, possibly, hairy-cell leukemia. Combinations with other cytotoxic agents and biologics are in development, and perhaps they will lead to more effective regimens in the future.
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Semin Oncoljournal_title
Seminars in oncologyauthors
Cheson BDsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-12-01 00:00:00pages
695-706issue
6eissn
0093-7754issn
1532-8708pii
0093-7754(92)90038-3journal_volume
19pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Patients with advanced colorectal cancer were randomized to receive either fluorouracil (5-FU) 370 mg/m2 IV days 1 to 5 followed by weekly applications of 5-FU 600 mg/m2 or the same doses of 5-FU preceded by folinic acid 200 mg/m2. Because of toxicity, the weekly 5-FU dose in the combination treatment schedule was red...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:
更新日期:1992-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::This ongoing study was initiated to determine the feasibility of administering amifostine (Ethyol, WR-2721; MedImmune, Inc, Gaithersburg, MD) with monomodal high-dose rate (mHDR) brachytherapy and to assess the tolerability and side effects of this combination. To date, 18 patients suitable for prostate implant brachy...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2003.11.010
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose of this review is to demonstrate a successful use of preclinical models of bladder cancer to confirm the therapeutic potential of new promising drug candidates. The bladder has long been thought to be an ideal target for investigating therapies. When developing a new antineoplastic pharmaceutical agent, th...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2012.08.006
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::While cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract are related by location, they have distinct clinical and molecular characteristics. This review will focus on the molecular biology of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) of which alterations in p53, overexpression of cyclin D1, loss of p16, and aneuploidy have been best c...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2004.04.019
更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hematopoietic growth factors (HGFs) continue to be the most widely prescribed class of medications for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), despite the advent of disease-modifying therapies for MDS (eg, azacitidine, decitabine, and lenalidomide) and the current absence of an MDS-specific US Food and Drug Adm...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2011.04.014
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The efficacy and toxicity of cisplatin/etoposide and carboplatin/etoposide combinations along with thoracic irradiation were prospectively assessed in patients with small cell lung cancer. Both combinations were equally effective. However, the carboplatin/etoposide regimen caused significantly less nausea, vomiting, n...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Evidence is reviewed separating unusual variants of melanoma from the large group of superficial spreading and nodular (SSM/NOD) histogenetic types. These include (1) the relationship of moles to melanoma of the SSM/ NOD types not found in melanoma arising in lentigo maligna (LMM), desmoplastic neurotrophic melanoma (...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Drug resistance is one of the most important problems in the treatment of cancer. Patients become resistant not only to the drugs used initially, but also those to which they have not yet been exposed. A number of factors influence the therapeutic outcome of patients with breast cancer, foremost of which is the tumor ...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1990-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Interest in retinoids as therapeutic agents has developed as a result of the observations of remission induction with all-trans retinoic acid (tRA) in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), and of high objective response rates noted with the combination of cis-retinoic acid (cRA) with interferon-alpha in sq...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1992-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Coelomic epithelial carcinoma of the ovary, the most common cause of death from cancer of the female genital tract in the United States, presents most commonly as advanced (stage III or IV) disease. Management consists of aggressive surgical cytoreduction followed by combination chemotherapy, until recently, a platinu...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phase I studies of CPT-11 (irinotecan) have been conducted in Europe, the United States, and Japan to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and the most appropriate intravenous administration schedule for further evaluation in phase II investigations. Diarrhea and/or neutropenia were the major dose-limiting toxic...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Developments in the treatment of extensive small cell lung cancer have proven effective in palliative management but have not yielded improvements in the cure rate for this disease. Strategies involving dose escalation of chemotherapy, including de novo and late intensification dose escalation and dose escalation with...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1992-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cisplatin is recognized as an active chemotherapeutic agent in a broad variety of human tumors. The severe emetic effects of cisplatin, however, result in both acute and delayed emesis syndromes causing considerable morbidity. Over the last decade, the standard of therapy for control of cisplatin-induced emesis has be...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Immune dysregulation, a hallmark of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), manifests itself in three autoimmune diseases: warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA); idiopathic thrombocytopenia (ITP); and, pure red cell aplasia (PRCA). AIHA occurs in 11% of advanced stage CLL patients. Prednisone is the first treatment of c...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Metastatic germ cell cancer is a very heterogeneous group with respect to prognosis under cisplatinum-based chemotherapy. The main determinants of complete response and survival are not only the extension of the metastases but much more the biology of the underlying tumor which is represented by the location of the me...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) is a highly heritable cancer primarily affecting young white men. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been particularly effective in identifying multiple common variants with strong contribution to TGCT risk. These loci identified through association studies have implicated mu...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2016.08.004
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Quality of life (QOL) variables are increasingly included as end points in cancer therapy trials, supplementing such traditional end points as survival time in evaluating the effects of cancer treatments. Consensus has been reached that a number of QOL components (symptom status and physical, emotional, role, and soci...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Because results with conventional salvage therapy remain disappointing, the approach of using high-dose therapy and bone marrow transplantation has gained increasing support in recent years. Several trials have now been reported using various conditioning regimens and hematopoietic rescue sources. Although it is not c...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The human tumor cloning system is an in vitro assay that has been used to predict response of patients' tumors to conventional antineoplastic agents as well as to biologic agents. In addition, the assay has been used to screen for antitumor activity of newly discovered cytotoxics and biologics. The purpose of the pres...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Robust pharmacodynamic assay results are valuable for informing go/no-go decisions about continued development of new anti-cancer agents and for identifying combinations of targeted agents, but often pharmacodynamic results are too incomplete or variable to fulfill this role. Our experience suggests that variable reag...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2016.06.006
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Traditionally, medical oncology has focused on the active period of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of cancer patients, and palliative medicine, the pre-terminal and end-of-life phases. Palliative medicine physicians have particular expertise in communication and symptom control, especially, for example, with pain ...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2011.03.021
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive malignancy with limited effective therapeutic options and exceedingly high mortality rates. Currently, cure can only be achieved through resection, however the vast majority of patients present with advanced disease for which upfront surgery is not an option. In...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2018.12.002
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The benefits of radiation therapy (RT) as part of a treatment regimen for cancer must be weighed against the potential risk of harm to the patient and in the pregnant patient, the risk to the developing fetus. Information necessary for determining the potential effects of RT on the developing fetus include the gestati...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In a phase II Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group trial, single-agent paclitaxel (Taxol; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ) was administered to 26 patients with advanced urothelial cancer who had not received prior systemic chemotherapy. Paclitaxel was given at a dose of 250 mg/m2 by 24-hour continuous infusi...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although more common in developing countries, over 11,000 deaths will occur in the United States from head and neck cancer in 2004. Squamous cell carcinomas account for the vast majority of cases in the United States and the majority of these are related to exposure to tobacco and alcohol. Newer data suggest a genetic...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2004.09.013
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::There are several treatment options for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), including those with disease that has progressed after treatment with chemotherapy. Bevacizumab-containing regimens show good efficacy in patients with previously treated disease. Compared with infused 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.08.003
更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The recommended weekly dose and the maximum tolerated weekly dose of docetaxel (Taxotere; Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Antony, France) have yet to be determined. We report that a weekly dose of up to 40 mg/m2 docetaxel for 6 weeks is active in pretreated patients with metastatic breast cancer. From a preliminary study, this d...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study, it has been shown that in 21 patients with AML the dCyd kinase and dCyd deaminase activities correspond closely to the clinical response to ara-C remission induction therapy. Patients with primary disease were treated with a conventional-dose ara-C regimen whereas nonresponders and relapsed patients fol...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy is associated with increased survival in esophageal cancer. Early detection of response or nonresponse to neoadjuvant chemoradiation might allow individualization of treatment strategies and avoidance of unnecessary treatment. Positron emission tomo...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.10.011
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Improving local tumor control is a goal of modern radiotherapy that will directly impact a majority of cancer patients. Numerous attempts to develop radiosensitizing agents have, however, met with limited clinical success. Recent advances in gene therapeutic approaches have allowed researchers to combine gene therapy ...
journal_title:Seminars in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1997-12-01 00:00:00