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Trial reportMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2015

Dose-dense biweekly docetaxel combined with 5-fluorouracil as first-line treatment in advanced gastric cancer: a phase II trial.

Jian Xiao, Yonghe Chen, Wenyun Li, Jiaying Gong, Zhiyang Zhou, Yanhong Deng, Lei Wang, Donglin Ren, Jianping Wang, Junsheng Peng and 1 more

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase II
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Trial report in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. A nomogram to predict prognosis for gastric cancer with peritoneal dissemination.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Jian XiaoDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 26 Yuancun Erheng Road, Guangzhou, 510655, China.
Yonghe Chen
Wenyun Li
Jiaying Gong
Zhiyang Zhou
Yanhong Deng
Lei Wang
Donglin Ren
Jianping Wang
Junsheng Peng
Ping Lan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study evaluated the efficacy, safety and impact on quality of life (QoL) of a dose-dense biweekly regimen of docetaxel and 5-fluorouracil in first-line treatment of advanced gastric cancer (AGC). Eligible patients received docetaxel 60 mg/m(2) and 5-fluorouracil (400 mg/m(2) bolus followed by 2,400 mg/m(2) 46-h infusion), fortnightly. Prophylactic use of G-CSF was adopted in all patients. The primary end point was response rate (RR). Secondary end points were progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), toxicity and QoL. Thirty-nine patients with a median age of 55 (28-80) were included. The RR was 51.3 %. Median PFS and OS were 6.7 and 14.0 months, respectively. The most common adverse events (all grades) were anemia (34, 87.2 %), fatigue (29, 74.4 %), neutropenia (26, 66.7 %), nail change (19, 48.7 %) and liver dysfunction (15, 38.5 %). In QoL analysis, improvements were obtained in seven scales, whereas drops were seen in three scales. Common Grade 3/4 toxicities included anemia (28.2 %), liver dysfunction (7.7 %) and fatigue (7.7 %). This novel regimen is a promising option for AGC, showing high RR, improvement on QoL and acceptable toxicity.

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