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- Title
High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue as initial therapy for anaplastic oligodendroglioma: long-term follow-up.
- Authors
Abrey, Lauren E; Childs, Barrett H; Paleologos, Nina; Kaminer, Lynne; Rosenfeld, Steven; Salzman, Donna; Finlay, Jonathan L; Gardner, Sharon; Peterson, Kendra; Hu, Wendy; Swinnen, Lode; Bayer, Robert; Forsyth, Peter; Stewart, Douglas; Smith, Anne M; Macdonald, David R; Weaver, Susan; Ramsay, David A; Nimer, Stephen D; DeAngelis, Lisa M; Cairncross, J Gregory
- Abstract
We previously reported a phase 2 trial of 69 patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic or aggressive oligodendroglioma who were treated with intensive procarbazine, CCNU (lomustine), and vincristine (PCV) followed by high-dose thiotepa with autologous stem cell rescue. This report summarizes the long-term follow-up of the cohort of 39 patients who received high-dose thiotepa with autologous stem cell support. Thirty-nine patients with a median age of 43 (range, 18-67) and a median KPS of 100 (range, 70-100) were treated. Surviving patients now have a median follow-up of 80.5 months (range, 44-142). The median progression-free survival is 78 months, and median overall survival has not been reached. Eighteen patients (46%) have relapsed. Neither histology nor prior low-grade oligodendroglioma correlated with risk of relapse. Persistent nonenhancing tumor at transplant was identified in our initial report as a significant risk factor for relapse; however, long-term follow-up has not confirmed this finding. Long-term neurotoxicity has developed only in those patients whose disease relapsed and required additional therapy; no patient in continuous remission has developed a delayed neurologic injury. This treatment strategy affords long-term disease control to a subset of patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic oligodendroglioma without evidence of delayed neurotoxicity or myelodysplasia.
- Publication
Neuro-oncology, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
1522-8517
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1215/15228517-2005-009