title: [Chemotherapy in disseminated malignant skin melanoma with a combination of nitrosomethylurea, vincristine, peplomycin or bleomycetin].
abstract: A study of combination chemotherapy with nitrosomethylurea, vincristine and peplomycin or bleomycetin given an 5-6-day cycles showed the cytotoxic regimens to be more effective than single-agent treatment with dacarbazine for disseminated melanoma of the skin with metastases to the subcutaneous fat, lymph nodes, lungs and other viscera. In a group of 129 such patients, complete (12%) and partial remission (38%) was observed with the former combination whereas with nitrosomethylurea, vincristine and bleomycetin, complete and partial response rates were 7.6 and 26.9%, respectively.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Tanaev
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gershanovich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000008:administration & dosage; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001761:Bleomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008770:Methylnitrosourea / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017663:Peplomycin; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012074:Remission Induction; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014750:Vincristine / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D001761:Bleomycin; D017663:Peplomycin; C025703:bleomycetin; D014750:Vincristine; D008770:Methylnitrosourea
vernacular_title: Khimioterapiia disseminirovannoĭ zlokachestvennoĭ melanomy kozhi kombinatsieĭ nitrozometilmocheviny, vinkristina, peplomitsina ili bleomitsetina.