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ABEP as primary chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease
G B Zulian1, B Mermillod, P Alberto
1Division of Onco-Hematology, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.
European Journal of Cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
20 untreated Hodgkin's disease patients and 1 patient relapsing after radiotherapy (17 stage IIB-IV and 4 stage I-IIA) were given doxorubicin, bleomycin, etoposide and prednisone on a 21-day cycle. The response rate was 95% and 16 patients (76%) achieved complete remission. 4 patients have relapsed 2, 5, 22 and 50 months after treatment. Survival was 100% at a median follow-up of 35 months. However, due to dyspnoea on exertion in 2 patients, bleomycin will be abandoned, and the occurrence of two second malignancies questions the role of etoposide as a leukaemogenic agent.