1. A risk-adapted, response-based approach using ABVE-PC for children and adolescents with intermediate- and high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma: the results of P9425.
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Schwartz CL, Constine LS, Villaluna D, London WB, Hutchison RE, Sposto R, Lipshultz SE, Turner CS, deAlarcon PA, and Chauvenet A
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Bleomycin administration & dosage, Child, Child, Preschool, Cyclophosphamide administration & dosage, Disease-Free Survival, Doxorubicin administration & dosage, Etoposide administration & dosage, Female, Humans, Male, Prednisolone administration & dosage, Radiotherapy Dosage, Survival Rate, Time Factors, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols administration & dosage, Hodgkin Disease mortality, Hodgkin Disease therapy
- Abstract
Current treatment strategies for Hodgkin lymphoma result in excellent survival but often confer significant long-term toxicity. We designed ABVE-PC (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone, cyclophosphamide) to (1) enhance treatment efficacy by dose-dense drug delivery and (2) reduce risk of long-term sequelae by response-based reduction of cumulative chemotherapy. Efficient induction of early response by dose-dense drug delivery supported an early-response-adapted therapeutic paradigm. The 216 eligible patients were younger than 22 years with intermediate- or high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma. ABVE-PC was administered every 21 days. Rapid early responders (RERs) to 3 ABVE-PC cycles received 21 Gy radiation to involved regions; RER was documented in 63% of patients. Slow early responders received 2 additional ABVE-PC cycles before 21 Gy radiation. Five-year event-free-survival was 84%: 86% for the RER and 83% for the slow early responders (P = .85). Only 1% of patients had progressive disease. Five-year overall survival was 95%. With this regimen, cumulative doses of alkylators, anthracyclines, and epipodophyllotoxins are below thresholds usually associated with significant long-term toxicity. ABVE-PC is a dose-dense regimen that provides outstanding event-free survival/overall survival with short duration, early-response-adapted therapy.
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- 2009
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