title: Mitoxantrone in the treatment of advanced uterine sarcoma. A phase II trial of the Gynecologic Oncology Group.
abstract: Twenty-nine evaluable patients with metastatic or recurrent leiomyosarcoma or malignant mixed mesodermal tumors of the uterus were treated with mitoxantrone 12 mg/m2 every 3 weeks. All patients had good performance status and measurable disease. Nineteen had prior chemotherapy but only five had prior doxorubicin. No complete or partial responses were seen in 12 patients with leiomyosarcoma (95% confidence interval for a response of 0-22%) or 17 patients with mixed mesodermal tumors (95% confidence interval for a response of 0-16%). The median progression-free interval for patients with leiomyosarcoma was 1.4 months and the median survival 4.1 months. The median progression-free interval for patients with mixed mesodermal was 1.4 months and median survival 4.0 months. Mitoxantrone does not appear to be very active against leiomyosarcoma or mixed mesodermal tumors as second-line therapy.
authors.affiliation: Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Department of OB-GYN, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Muss
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Bundy
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Adcock
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beecham
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008942:Mitoxantrone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000188:drug therapy; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012074:Remission Induction; D015996:Survival Rate; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D008942:Mitoxantrone