title: [Chemotherapeutic combinations of mutually potentiating drugs. 2-Application to the treatment of bronchial cancers].
abstract: 16 patients suffering from primary bronchial tumours which had recurred after surgery and/or radiotherapy and with spread involving at least one visceral or lymphatic metastasis received chemotherapy consisting of the administration of vincristine followed by a combination of CCNU and 5-fluorouracil. Each cycle of treatment lasted 6 days and was restarted only after an interval of 30 days on average, this being necessary for haematological recovery. With the doses of CCNU used, thrombocytopaenia occurred only during the fifth cycle of treatment and made it necessary to increase the interval between subsequent courses to five weeks. All of the patients included in the study have now been followed up for between six and eighteen months. Two patients are presently in complete remission without apparent radiological, clinical or bronchoscopic signs. In seven other patients there was tumour regression greater than 50 p.cent persisting for four to six months. In seven, the therapeutic effect was transient or nil.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000505:Alopecia / Q000139:chemically induced; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000188:drug therapy; D004357:Drug Synergism; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009607:Nitrosourea Compounds / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011034:Podophyllotoxin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014750:Vincristine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D009607:Nitrosourea Compounds; D014750:Vincristine; D011034:Podophyllotoxin; D005472:Fluorouracil
vernacular_title: Combinaisons chimiothérapiques de drogues se potentialisant. II. Application au traitement des cancers bronchiques