SynthesisMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2017
Salvage treatment for testicular cancer with standard- or high-dose chemotherapy: a systematic review of 59 studies.
Synthesis in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- High-dose chemotherapy as initial salvage chemotherapy in patients with relapsed or refractory testicular cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Survival outcomes of patients with germ cell tumors treated with high-dose chemotherapy for refractory or relapsing disease.Oncotarget · 2018Article
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Abstract
Relapsed germ cell tumor (GCT) is a highly curable cancer with standard-dose platinum-based chemotherapy (CT); however, high-dose CT (HDCT) is seldom used as salvage therapy instead or after conventional CT. We conducted a systematic review of published trials to compare outcomes between standard-dose CT and HDCT in patients with relapsed GCT after first-line therapy for advanced disease. A literature search was carried out in multiple electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and The Cochrane Library), and studies reporting salvage treatment of relapsed GCT with standard-dose or carboplatin-etoposide-based HDCT were selected. Overall response rate, median overall survival (OS), and the 1-, 2-, 3-, and 5-year OS rates were pooled, and the significance of difference between arms was assessed with a Chi-square test. Twenty-nine standard-dose and 31 HD studies were included in the meta-analysis. For standard-dose CT versus HDCT, there was no significant difference in median OS (14.8 months and 24.09 months, respectively; P = 0.09) or in 1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-year survival rate (standard-dose CT, 64.2, 63.6, 45.1, and 43%, respectively; HDCT, 63.7, 51.2, 46.7, and 45%, respectively; P = 0.9, P = 0.4, P = 0.75, and P = 0.06). Conventional dose regimens and HDCT were associated with comparable efficacy when used as salvage therapies in relapsed GCTs as second-line therapy or beyond. However, the selection of ideal candidates for more or less intensive treatments deserves further research in the near future.
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