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- Titel:
Adjuvant cisplatin plus methotrexate versus methotrexate, vinblastine, epirubicin, and cisplatin in locally advanced bladder cancer: results of a randomized, multicenter, phase III trial (AUO-AB 05/95).
- Dokumenttyp:
- Clinical Trial; Clinical Trial, Phase III; Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Randomized Controlled Trial; Article
- Autor(en):
- Lehmann, J; Retz, M; Wiemers, C; Beck, J; Thüroff, J; Weining, C; Albers, P; Frohneberg, D; Becker, T; Funke, PJ; Walz, P; Langbein, S; Reiher, F; Schiller, M; Miller, K; Roth, S; Kalble, T; Sternberg, D; Wellek, S; Stöckle, M
- Abstract:
- PURPOSE: Radical cystectomy as standard treatment of muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder cures less than 50% of patients with locally advanced bladder cancer. We compared two adjuvant combination chemotherapies in patients with stage pT3a-4a and/or pathologic node-positive transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder after radical cystectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 327 patients were randomly assigned to either adjuvant systemic chemotherapy with three cycles of cisplatin 70 mg/qm(2) on day 1 and methotrexate 40 mg/qm(2) on days 8 and 15 of a 21-day cycle (CM) or three cycles of methotrexate 30 mg/qm(2) on days 1, 15, and 22, vinblastine 3 mg/qm(2) on days 2, 15, and 22, epirubicin 45 mg/qm(2) on day 2, and cisplatin 70 mg/qm(2) on day 2 of a 28-day cycle (M-VEC). RESULTS: The hazard ratio for progression-free survival as the primary end point was 1.13 (90% CI, 0.86 to 1.48) for 163 CM patients compared with 164 M-VEC patients whose right-hand limit remained below the upper bound compatible with the noninferiority hypothesis (alpha = .0403). The 5-year progression-free, tumor-specific, and overall survival rates (point estimates +/- SE) for CM versus M-VEC were 46.3% +/- 4.6% v 48.8% +/- 4.5%, 52.0% +/- 4.6% v 52.3% +/- 4.8%, and 46.1% +/- 4.3% v 45.1% +/- 4.6%, respectively. WHO grade 3 and 4 leukopenia occurred in 7.0% of patients treated with CM and 22.2% of patients treated with M-VEC (P < .0001). CONCLUSION: CM cannot be considered inferior to M-VEC with regard to progression-free survival of patients with locally advanced bladder cancer after radical cystectomy. Moreover, patients receiving adjuvant CM combination therapy experienced significantly less grade 3 and 4 leukopenia than patients treated with M-VEC.
- Zeitschriftentitel:
- J Clin Oncol
- Jahr:
- 2005
- Band / Volume:
- 23
- Heft / Issue:
- 22
- Seitenangaben Beitrag:
- 4963-74
- Sprache:
- eng
- Volltext / DOI:
- doi:10.1200/JCO.2005.11.094
- PubMed:
- http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15939920
- Print-ISSN:
- 0732-183X
- TUM Einrichtung:
- Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik
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