Aapro MS, van Wijk FH, van der Burg MEL, ten Bokkel Huinink W, Vergote I, Guastalla JP, Rosso R, Kobierska A, Beex LVA, Namer M, Splinter TEW, Vermorken JB. Phase II study of fotemustine in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma. A trial of the EORTC Gynecological Cancer Group.
Eur J Cancer 2003;
39:1141-3. [PMID:
12736114 DOI:
10.1016/s0959-8049(03)00198-9]
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Abstract
30 patients with advanced ovarian cancer, all platinum pretreated, were treated with an induction cycle of fotemustine. Maintenance therapy was given to 6 patients. No objective response was observed among the 21 evaluable patients. The main toxicities were gastrointestinal, with grade 3 nausea and vomiting reported in 40% of the patients, and haematological, with grade 4 leucopenia reported in 2 patients and grade 4 thrombocytopenia in 5 patients. Therefore, no role has been demonstrated in our cohort for the use of fotemustine, a nitrosourea, in pretreated ovarian cancer.
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