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Efficacy of paclitaxel and carboplatin as a regimen for postoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy of high risk uterine cervix cancer
- Issue Date
- 2005-11-07
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Gynecol Oncol. 2006 Jun;101(3):398-402. Epub 2005 Dec 5.
- Keywords
- Adult ; Aged ; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/adverse ; effects/*therapeutic use ; Carboplatin/administration & dosage/adverse effects ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Disease-Free Survival ; Female ; Humans ; Hysterectomy ; Lymph Node Excision ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Staging ; Paclitaxel/administration & dosage/adverse effects ; Patient Compliance ; Radiotherapy ; Risk Factors ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/drug therapy/pathology/radiotherapy/*therapy
- Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of concurrent chemoradiotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin after hysterectomy for early stage uterine cervical carcinoma with high risk factors. METHODS: Between March 2000 and July 2002, 37 patients with stages IB-IIB uterine cervical carcinoma were treated with radical hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy (POCCRT) with two courses of paclitaxel (135 mg/m(2)) and carboplatin (area under the time-concentration curve 4.5 mg min/ml) at 4-week interval. All the patients received external beam radiotherapy up to 50.4 Gy to the whole pelvis. Among these, 7 patients with close or involved resection margin received boost irradiation to the vaginal cuff (4 patients with low dose rate brachytherapy and 3 patients with external beam). Median dose of boost irradiation was 14.4 Gy (range: 14.4-34.6). RESULTS: Toxicity to POCCRT was mainly hematological and gastrointestinal, mostly grades 1 and 2. At a median follow-up of 27 months (range; 10-46), all the patients achieved local control, and 4 patients experienced distant relapses. The failure sites were as follows: bone (2 patients), paraaortic lymph node (1 patient), and supraclavicular lymph node (1 patient). CONCLUSIONS: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin after hysterectomy is well tolerated and produces excellent local control rate despite of short follow-up period. This regimen could be considered for a phase III trial.
- ISSN
- 0090-8258 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16330087
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/15514
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