title: [Prolonged oral etoposide therapy in advanced stage lung cancer].
abstract: Authors discuss results of the prolonged oral etoposide treatment of 79 patients with advanced stage lung cancer. Thirty patients with small-cell lung cancer were treated with Cisplatin in combination with prolonged oral etoposide. Response rate was nearly 100%. Most of the patients (24) were in partial remission, and the mean survival time was 15 months. Forty-nine patients with non-small cell lung cancer were divided at random into two groups: patients in the first group (n = 25) were treated with Cisplatin in combination with prolonged oral etoposide. In the second group (n = 24) was used only prolonged oral etoposide therapy for 14-, or 21 days. Encouraging response rate have been observed with long-term daily administration of oral etoposide to treat non-small cell lung cancer. In both groups there was a response rate nearly 80%. Most of the patients in these two subgroups got into partial remission, and a rest were in stable clinical stage (median duration was 5 months). Besides alopecia, which occurred in all patients, myelosuppression (agranulocytosis) was the predominate toxicity (agranulocytosis in 5 cases), which was affectively treated with combined supportive care. Etoposide given by this dose and schedule (100 mg/d for 14 days) has activity as first-line systemic therapy in combination with Cisplatin for advanced small-cell lung cancer and, has a moderate activity for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Bács-Kiskun Megyei Onkormányzat Kórháza, Tüdóbelosztály Kecskemét.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bozóky
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ruby
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Góhér
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lengyel
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005047:Etoposide / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012074:Remission Induction; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D005047:Etoposide; D002945:Cisplatin