Radiation plus Procarbazine, CCNU, and Vincristine in Low-Grade Glioma
Author(s) -
Jan C. Buckner,
Edward G. Shaw,
Stephanie L. Pugh,
Arnab Chakravarti,
Mark R. Gilbert,
Geoffrey R. Barger,
Stephen W. Coons,
Peter E. Ricci,
Dennis E. Bullard,
Paul D. Brown,
K. Stelzer,
David Brachman,
John H. Suh,
Christopher J. Schultz,
Jean-Paul Bahary,
Barbara J. Fisher,
Harold Kim,
Albert Murtha,
Erica H. Bell,
Minhee Won,
Minesh P. Mehta,
Walter J. Curran
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1500925
Subject(s) - medicine , procarbazine , lomustine , vincristine , radiation therapy , oligodendroglioma , surgery , chemotherapy , glioma , astrocytoma , hazard ratio , cyclophosphamide , confidence interval , cancer research
Grade 2 gliomas occur most commonly in young adults and cause progressive neurologic deterioration and premature death. Early results of this trial showed that treatment with procarbazine, lomustine (also called CCNU), and vincristine after radiation therapy at the time of initial diagnosis resulted in longer progression-free survival, but not overall survival, than radiation therapy alone. We now report the long-term results.
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