Abstract
Patients undergoing chemotherapy for treatment of malignancy frequently experience clinically significant anemia. Myelosuppressive chemotherapy impairs erythropoiesis, which may not fully recover between treatment cycles. Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) has been effectively introduced in anemic patients suffering from chronic renal failure. The present study was designed to assess, first, whether rHuEPO treatment decreases transfusion requirements in chemotherapy-induced anemia and, second, whether high-dose rHuEPO application is safe. Thirty consecutive anemic patients (hemoglobin <11 g/dl) receiving combination chemotherapy for primary malignant bone tumors were studied in a prospective, double-blind, randomized, Phase III trial. Patients received chemotherapy according to one of two German protocols, depending on histologic diagnosis. All subjects enrolled were randomly assigned either to receive 600 IU of rHuEPO per kg of body weight intravenously twice a week or to receive a placebo during chemotherapy. To obtain comparable data, an observation period of 20 weeks was chosen. Twenty-nine patients fulfilled the criteria and were eligible for statistical evaluation. Transfusion requirements were significantly decrea...Continue Reading
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