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The role of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy regimens consisting of different combinations of drugs in the treatment of advanced oral cancer
Authors:S Basu  M Khanra  B Dash  J Majumdar  J Biswas and P Chaudhuri
Institution:(1) Department of Medical Oncology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Sujit Basu, 618, Block ‘O’, New Alipore, 700053 Calcutta, India;(2) Department of Surgical Oncology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Sujit Basu, 618, Block ‘O’, New Alipore, 700053 Calcutta, India;(3) Department of Radiation Oncology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Sujit Basu, 618, Block ‘O’, New Alipore, 700053 Calcutta, India
Abstract:We performed a retrospective analysis on the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with three cycles of methotrexate (100 mg/m2 on day 1), cisplatin (90 mg/m2 on day 1) and bleomycin (20 mg/m2 on day 1–5) with 21 d gap between each cycle in 44 patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the cheek, lip and tongue followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin (90 mg/m2 on day 1), Mitomycin C (6 mg/m2 on day 1) and 5-fluorouracil (1000 mg/m2 120 h continuous infusion from day 1) repeated every 3 weeks for three cycles. Following induction chemotherapy, complete response was observed in 11 out of 44 patients (25%), and a partial response in a further 28 patients (64%). The overall median survival of all patients was 29 months and those in stage III and stage IV were 30 and 15 months respectively (P<0.001). The median duration of the time to relapse in patients who responded to adjuvant chemotherapy was 28 months. The main toxic effect was vomiting followed by hematological toxicity. No treatment-related deaths occurred. The regimen showed a significant response, encouraging median survival and a good tolerability profile.
Keywords:oral cancer  combination chemotherapy  neoadjuvant  adjuvant
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