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Three weekly versus weekly concurrent cisplatin: safety propensity score analysis on 166 head and neck cancer patients.
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Radiation Oncology . 12/20/2021, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p1-13. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Radio-chemotherapy with CDDP is the standard for H&N squamous cell cancer. CDDP 100 mg/m2/q3 is the standard; alternative schedules are used to reduce toxicity, mostly 40 mg/m2/q1.<bold>Methods: </bold>Patients were treated from 1/2010 to 1/2017 in two Radiation Oncology Centres. Propensity score analysis (PS) was retrospectively used to compare these two schedules.<bold>Results: </bold>Patients analyzed were 166. Most (114/166) had 1w-CDDP while 52 had 3w-CDDP. In the 3w-CDDP group, patients were younger, with better performance status, smaller disease extent and a more common nodal involvement than in the 1w-CDDP. Acute toxicity was similar in the groups. Treatment compliance was lower in the w-CCDP. Overall survival before PS was better for female, for oropharyngeal disease and for 3w-CDDP group. After PS, survival was not related to the CDDP schedule.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>3w-CDDP remains the standard for fit patients, weekly schedule could be safely used in selected patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1748717X
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Radiation Oncology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154247053
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-021-01966-4