title: Mitomycin C in large infrequent doses in breast cancer.
abstract: Seventy-one women with far-advanced breast cancer resistant to standard chemotherapeutic agents were administered mitomycin C using an intermittent high dose schedule. One group consisted of 54 patients with measurable metastatic tumor; a second group consisted of 18 patients with nonmeasurable osseous metastases. Objective response rate in group 1 was 26% for an average duration of 2 1/2 months. Subjective response rate in group 2 was 44% for an average duration of 3 months. Response and toxicity data were similar to those of studies employing the less convenient protracted low-dose schedule. Prior treatment with other alkylating agents did not adversely affect response. Further investigation into the role of mitomycin in combination chemotherapy programs is recommended.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use* / Q000633:toxicity; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D008937:Mitomycins