title: Chemotherapy of invasive thymoma.
abstract: Despite conventional therapy, including surgery and radiation, 5-year survival for invasive thymoma remains poor. Chemotherapeutic agents, including cisdiamminedichloroplatinum, prednisone, adriamycin and nitrogen mustard-vincristine-vinblastine-procarbazine, and bleomycin-adriamycin-CCNU-vincristine have produced short-term remissions. In view of the small number of cases seen in any one institution, a cooperative study to evaluate chemotherapeutic efficacy in malignant thymoma would seem worthwhile.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008130:Lomustine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D008466:Mechlorethamine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D011344:Procarbazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013945:Thymoma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014747:Vinblastine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014750:Vincristine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D011344:Procarbazine; D008466:Mechlorethamine; D014750:Vincristine; D014747:Vinblastine; D008130:Lomustine; D004317:Doxorubicin; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D002945:Cisplatin