Review
doi: 10.1159/000401510.
African trials in chemotherapy of gastrointestinal cancer
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- DOI: 10.1159/000401510
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African trials in chemotherapy of gastrointestinal cancer
Antibiot Chemother (1971).
1978.
Abstract
Bleomycin either alone or in combination with radiotherapy was used in the treatment of 24 patients with non-resectable cancer of the oesophagus. Improvement in performance (swallowing) status was observed in 75% of patients, although only 19% were known to be alive after 1 year of follow-up. Patients with liver cancer were treated with adriamycin. The response rate was dose dependent and was 40% at best. Combination of adriamycin with other drugs did not improve the response rate. Intra-arterial adriamycin appears more efficacious and gave a response rate of 60%.
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