title: [Adjuvant treatment of colonic carcinoma].
abstract: After many years of negative trials of adjuvant chemotherapy in colon cancer, two studies in the years 1989 and 1990 of the NCCTG and the Intergroup Trial, respectively showed a significant reduction of relapse and improved survival in patients treated with 5-FU and levamisole in an adjuvant setting. The absolute and relative reductions in 5-year-relapse and death rates were approximately 35% and 17%, respectively. Intraportal perfusion of the liver in an adjuvant perioperative setting seems to be of similar benefit. Preliminary data of the adjuvant therapy with 5-FU and folinic acid also show that this combination seems to have at least the same efficacy as the current standard 5-FU/levamisole in the adjuvant therapy of colon cancer. At the current time, patients with colon cancer of Dukes stage C should be offered adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-FU/levamisole outside of clinical studies.
authors.affiliation: Departement Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital Basel, Universitätskliniken.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Rochlitz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D002955:Leucovorin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D007978:Levamisole / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008130:Lomustine / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D007978:Levamisole; D008130:Lomustine; D002955:Leucovorin; D005472:Fluorouracil