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N Wilking, N Petrelli, L Herrera, A Mittelman.
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Fifteen patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal were treated with a combination of bleomycin, vincristine, and high-dose methotrexate (BOM) with leucovorin rescue. Three out of twelve patients with measurable disease had objective responses of 1, 2, and 5 months. Five of the fifteen patients had severe or life-threatening complications as a result of this treatment regimen. The narrow therapeutic index of the BOM therapy makes it a less than ideal drug combination for the treatment of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID: 2414024 DOI: 10.1007/bf00263905
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Chemother Pharmacol ISSN: 0344-5704 Impact factor: 3.333