PCV salvage chemotherapy for recurrent primary CNS lymphoma

Abstract
Radiochemotherapy according to DeAngelis et al.1 and, since 1998, HD-MTX (8 g/m2 body surface area)3 were primary treatments for patients with PCNSL at our institution. All patients presenting with recurrent or progressive PCNSL between 1995 and 1998 were intended to be treated with PCV chemotherapy (procarbazine 60 mg/m2, days 8 through 21; lomustine (CCNU) 110 mg/m2, day 1; vincristine 2 mg, days 8 and 29) …