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Effective Salvage Therapy for Refractory Disseminated Breast Cancer with 5-Fluorouracil and High-Dose Continuous Infusion Folinic Acid
Treatment options are limited for patients with disseminated carcinoma of the breast whose disease has progressed after therapy with standard chemotherapeutic programs (1). In fact, the usefulness of testing i...
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3-Deazaguanine: Report of a phase I trial and drug-related cardiac toxicity
3-Deazaguanine (Dezaguanine), a purine antimetabolite, was evaluated in a phase I trial in 42 patients with advanced solid tumors. Dezaguanine was given as a weekly intravenous infusion for three consecutive w...
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Phase II study of 4 ′ -deoxydoxorubicin (esorubicin) in advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the stomach
4 ′-deoxydoxorubicin (DxDx) was administered to 17 patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma. Treatment cycles were repeated every 21 days. 15 eligible patients with a Karnofsky perfo...
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Fluorouracil and Leucovorin in Advanced Breast Cancer
It is clear from the studies summarized above that the combination of leucovorin and 5-FU can salvage 15–20% of heavily-pretreated patients with advanced breast cancer. In previously-untreated patients, the co...
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Mitomycin C and menadione for the treatment of advanced gastrointestinal cancers: a phase II trial
A phase II trial of menadione (2.5 g/m2 as a continuous intravenous infusion over 48 h) followed by mitomycin C (10–20 mg/m2 i.v. bolus) administered every 4–6 weeks was performed in 43 patients with advanced gas...
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Mitomycin C and menadione for the treatment of lung cancer: a phase II trial
A phase II trial of menadione [2.5 gm/m2 as a continuous intravenous (iv) infusion over 48 hours] followed by mitomycin C (10–20 mg/m2 iv bolus) administered every 4 to 6 weeks was performed in 23 patients with a...
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Continuous infusion prochlorperazine: pharmacokinetics, antiemetic efficacy, and feasibility of high-dose therapy
Purpose: The purpose of these sequential phase I studies was to evaluate the antiemetic efficacy and pharmacokinetics of high-dose continuous infusion prochlorperazine. Methods: A total of 52 pat...
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Kidney cancer: The cytokine working group experience (1986–2001)
The Cytokine Working Group (CWG) was initially established in 1986 as the Extramural IL-2/LAK Working Group. With funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the CWG was mandated to confirming data regar...
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Kidney cancer: The cytokine working group experience (1986–2001)
The Cytokine Working Group (CWG) was initially established in 1986 as the Extramural IL-2/LAK Working Group. With funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the CWG was mandated to confirming data regar...
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Dolastatin-10 in Metastatic Melanoma: A Phase II and Pharmokinetic Trial of the California Cancer Consortium
Dolastatin-10 is a novel pentapeptide agentoriginally isolated from the marine molluskDolabella auricularia with amechanism of antitumor activity thatinvolves the inhibition of microtubuleassembly. We performed a...
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Phase I pharmacodynamic study of time and sequence dependency of hydroxyurea in combination with gemcitabine: a California Cancer Consortium Trial
Preclinical studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that prior exposure to hydroxyurea increases the percentage of cells in S phase, enhancing the cytotoxicity of subsequent gemcitabine treatment in human...
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Phase I study of cisdiamminedichloroplatinum in combination with azidothymidine in the treatment of patients with advanced malignancies
Azidothymidine (AZT, zidovudine) has been shown to reverse cisplatin resistance in cell culture. This phase I study was performed to determine the maximally tolerated dose (MTD) and dose-limiting toxicities of...
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Feasibility and pharmacokinetic study of infusional dexrazoxane and dose-intensive doxorubicin administered concurrently over 96 h for the treatment of advanced malignancies
Dexrazoxane administration prior to short infusion doxorubicin prevents anthracycline-related heart damage. Since delivery of doxorubicin by 96-h continuous intravenous infusion also reduces cardiac injury, we...
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Phase II trial of carboplatin and infusional cyclosporine in platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer
To determine the response rate to 26-h continuous infusion cyclosporine A (CSA) combined with a fixed dose level of carboplatin (CBDCA) in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, and to determine the effect of...
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A phase I trial of 3-aminopyridine-2-carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazone in combination with gemcitabine for patients with advanced cancer
3-Aminopyridine-2-carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (3-AP), a new and potent inhibitor of ribonucleotide reductase (RR), increases the cellular uptake, DNA incorporation, and cytotoxicity of gemcitabine in tumo...
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Phase I trial of menadiol diphosphate (vitamin K3) in advanced malignancy
Based on the activity of menadione (M) in the human tumor stem cell assay, we conducted a phase I trial of M in patients with advanced cancer. Forty patients (19 men, 21 women) were treated with 90 courses of ...
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A phase I study of oxaliplatin in combination with gemcitabine: correlation of clinical outcome with gene expression
Oxaliplatin has in vitro activity similar to or higher than other platinum agents. Preclinically, gemcitabine has demonstrated synergy when combined with platinum compounds. These facts formed the rationale fo...
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Oblimersen and α-interferon in metastatic renal cancer: a phase II study of the California Cancer Consortium
Oblimersen is an 18-base oligodeoxynucleotide encoding antisense to the gene for bcl-2, an anti-apoptotic protein that is upregulated in renal and other cancers. This study was designed to evaluate the combina...
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IL-2 in the therapy of melanoma and other malignancies
IL-2 as a single agent has been approved for use in both renal cancer and melanoma, and it has achieved widespread use in these malignancies for selected patients with metastatic disease. For these diseases, a...
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Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid pharmacokinetics of topotecan in a phase I trial of topotecan, tamoxifen, and carboplatin, in the treatment of recurrent or refractory brain or spinal cord tumors
This study was designed to ascertain the dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) and maximally tolerated doses of the combination of fixed-dose tamoxifen and carboplatin, with escalating doses of topotecan, and to dete...
