Reduction of cyclophosphamide dose for patients with subset 2 low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma is associated with an increased risk of recurrence : A report from the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee of the Children's Oncology Group

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BACKGROUND: Failure-free survival (FFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were found to improve on Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study (IRS) IV (IRS-IV) compared with IRS-III for patients with subset 2 (IRS stage 1, group III nonorbit or stage 3, group I/II) low-risk embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma with the addition of cyclophosphamide (total cumulative cyclophosphamide dose of 26.4 g/m2 ) to the combination of vincristine and dactinomycin (VAC). The goal of Children's Oncology Group ARST0331 for subset 2 low-risk patients was to reduce the total cumulative cyclophosphamide dose without compromising FFS.

METHODS: Therapy included 4 cycles of VAC (total cumulative cyclophosphamide dose of 4.8 g/m2 ) followed by 12 cycles of vincristine and dactinomycin over 46 weeks. Patients with group II or III tumors received radiotherapy, except for girls with group III vaginal tumors who enrolled before September 2009 and achieved a complete response with chemotherapy with or without delayed surgical resection.

RESULTS: Among 66 eligible patients who were followed for a median of 3.5 years, there were 20 failures versus 10.53 expected failures. The estimated 3-year FFS and OS rates were 70% (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 57%-80%) and 92% (95% CI, 83%-97%), respectively. The estimated 3-year FFS rate was 57% (95% CI, 33%-75%) for girls with subset 2 genital tract embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (21 patients) and 77% (95% CI, 61%-87%) for all other subset 2 patients (45 patients) (P = .02).

CONCLUSIONS: The authors observed suboptimal FFS among patients with subset 2 low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma using reduced total cyclophosphamide. Eliminating radiotherapy for girls with group III vaginal tumors in combination with reduced total cyclophosphamide appeared to contribute to the suboptimal outcome. Cancer 2017;123:2368-2375. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

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2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:123

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Cancer - 123(2017), 12 vom: 15. Juni, Seite 2368-2375

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Walterhouse, David O [VerfasserIn]
Pappo, Alberto S [VerfasserIn]
Meza, Jane L [VerfasserIn]
Breneman, John C [VerfasserIn]
Hayes-Jordan, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Parham, David M [VerfasserIn]
Cripe, Timothy P [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, James R [VerfasserIn]
Meyer, William H [VerfasserIn]
Hawkins, Douglas S [VerfasserIn]

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Chemotherapy
Cyclophosphamide
Dactinomycin
Female genital tract
Journal Article
Radiotherapy
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Vincristine

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Date Completed 28.08.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1002/cncr.30613

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NLM269064990