| Literature DB >> 7860234 |
A Y Chang1, Z N Tu, G T Bryan, J M Kirkwood, M M Oken, D L Trump.
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Seventeen patients were treated with echinomycin for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Echinomycin is a bifunctional DNA intercalating agent with broad preclinical antitumor activity. It was given at 1200 mg/m2 by intravenous infusion over 30-60 min weekly for 4 weeks. The treatment was repeated every 6 weeks. There were no responses observed in the study. No life threatening or lethal toxicity was documented in 13 eligible patients. The median survival of these patients was 13.7 months. We conclude that echinomycin is not active against metastatic renal cell carcinoma at the dose and schedule tested.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 7860234 DOI: 10.1007/bf00874447
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Invest New Drugs ISSN: 0167-6997 Impact factor: 3.850