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. 1989 Mar;59(3):473-5.
doi: 10.1038/bjc.1989.98.

The prognostic value of a response to chemotherapy given before radiotherapy in advanced cancer of cervix

R P Symonds  1 , R A Burnett, T Habeshaw, S B Kaye, M P Snee, E R Watson
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The prognostic value of a response to chemotherapy given before radiotherapy in advanced cancer of cervix

R P Symonds et al. Br J Cancer. 1989 Mar.
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Abstract

Forty patients with stage III and 15 patients with stage IVa carcinoma of cervix have been treated with two pulses of cisplatin, vincristine and bleomycin combination chemotherapy before full dose radical radiotherapy. Twenty-seven of 51 (53%, 95% confidence interval 40-67%) had an objective response to chemotherapy and all chemotherapy responders had a complete response to radiotherapy. The actuarial survival at 24 months of responders to chemotherapy is 71% against 37% for non-responders. The responding patients had an estimated reduction in mortality to 36% (P = 0.014, 95% CI 15-81%) of that of the non-responders to chemotherapy. The incidence of tumour recurrence or distant metastases showed a similar reduction to 34% (P = 0.006, 95% CI 14-73%) of that of the non-responders. The data strongly suggest that response to chemotherapy in the initial treatment of advanced cervical cancer is associated with an improvement in survival following subsequent radical radiotherapy.

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