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  • Title: [Initial polychemotherapy in the treatment of cancers of the head and neck. The efficacy and tolerance of 2 nonrandomized combinations in 48 patients].
    Author: Brun B, Mazeron JJ, Martin M, Lelièvre G, Langlois A, Feuillade F, Lebourgeois JP, Peynegre R, Grellet M, Pierquin B.
    Journal: Bull Cancer; 1984; 71(1):30-4. PubMed ID: 6201214.
    Abstract:
    Before loco regional treatment for head and neck cancer forty eight patients received one or the other of the following combined chemotherapy regimens: Regimen A (28 patients): high dosage methotrexate, bleomycin, cis-platin; regimen B (20 patients): common dosage methotrexate, bleomycin, hydroxyurea, vincristin. The effectiveness of regimen A seemed better than that of regimen B (46% responses versus 20%). This assessment must be accepted with caution, since, although the organization of treatment was strictly similar in the two groups, the study was not randomized, and there were noticeable differences between the two groups. Regimen B was associated with no toxicity. Regimen A was responsible for two fatalities. These two cases were linked to high dosage methotrexate. However, a combined chemotherapy regimen of type A with the high dosage methotrexate replaced by intermediate dosage methotrexate, seems feasible to us. Loco regional treatment was not impaired by initial chemotherapy with either regimen.
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