COMMENTS ABOUT USE OF POLYCHEMOTHERAPY MOPP ASSOCIATED WITH RADIOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF EARLY STAGES OF HODGKINS-DISEASE PRELIMINARY-REPORT OF 58 PATIENTS
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 131 (4) , 239-243
Abstract
Patients (58) with early stages of Hodgkin''s disease (I, II, III) were treated by 3 courses of MOPP [nitrogen mustard, Oncovin, procarbazine, prednisone] chemotherapy followed by extended field irradiation. After 31 to 72 mo. follow-up, 87.8% of the patients are alive in complete remission. Adjuvant MOPP polychemotherapy may be useful only when a complete response is obtained after 3 courses; when it is, a complete remission of long duration may be hoped for in nearly 100% of the cases. After complete remission induced by combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy, maintenance chemotherapy seems to be useless.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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