| Literature DB >> 9394846 |
L Barzon1, F Fallo, N Sonino, O Daniele, M Boscaro.
Abstract
Forty-five patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (13 nonfunctioning and 32 functioning carcinomas) were retrospectively studied. Five-year survival rate was 29% overall; for patients at stage I-II (n = 15) it was 70%, and for patients at stage III-IV (n = 30) it was 12%. In patients given mitotane + chemotherapy survival rate was similar to that observed in patients given chemotherapy alone, and significantly longer than in patients given mitotane alone (p < 0.05). There were no differences in disease-free interval and survival between adjuvant mitotane and no treatment. Optimization of therapeutic protocols in addition to early recognition may improve prognostic aspects of this type of malignancy for which treatment outcome is still unsatisfactory.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9394846 DOI: 10.1159/000227608
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Oncology ISSN: 0030-2414 Impact factor: 2.935