Five-year update of a randomized trial of alternating radiotherapy and chemotherapy compared with radiotherapy alone in treatment of unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Marco MerlanoL Santi

Abstract

In 1992, we reported the first analysis of a randomized trial comparing alternating radiotherapy and chemotherapy with radiotherapy alone in the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The results of that 3-year analysis indicated that the combined treatment had superior efficacy. After an additional 2 years of follow-up, we again compared the efficacy of the two treatment regimens, with attention paid to differences in overall survival, progression-free survival, and locoregional relapse-free survival. One hundred fifty-seven patients with untreated, unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were randomly assigned to receive either chemotherapy (four courses of cisplatin [20 mg/m2] and fluorouracil [200 mg/m2], given daily for 5 consecutive days during weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10) plus radiotherapy (three courses of 20 Gy each, given in fractions of 2 Gy per day during weeks 2-3, 5-6, and 8-9) or radiotherapy alone (70 Gy total dose, given in fractions of 2 Gy per day, 5 days per week). Eighty patients received the combined therapy, and 77 were treated with radiotherapy alone. Responses, failures, and toxic effects associated with the two treatment regimens were compared. Overall survival, progress...Continue Reading

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