scholarly journals Comparative Emetogenicity Study of Cisplatin Alone and in Combination Regimen on Cancer Patients of Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
A. Sarwar ◽  
M.S. Rahman ◽  
T.B. Huq ◽  
K. Biswas ◽  
M.I. Hussain ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1107-1107
Author(s):  
D. Karacetin ◽  
O. Maral ◽  
O. Aksakal ◽  
B. Okten ◽  
B. Yalçın ◽  
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1107 Background: No standart chemotherapy regimen has been estabilished for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer. The gemcitabine and docetaxel combination has been shown to be synergistic . This study is conducted to verify the clinical efficacy and safety of gemcitabine and docetaxel combination therapy in metastatic breast cancer. Methods: 27 metastatic breast cancer patients were treated with gemcitabine-docetaxel combination . Gemcitabine 1,250 mg/m2 IV infusion, on day 1 and 8, and docetaxel 70 mg/m2 on day 1 in 21 day cycles. 4–6 cycles of chemotherapy were repeated every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was response rate, and survival. Results: The median age was 50 years (range,32–77). Performans status (ECOG) was 0–1. Hormone receptor status: ER+/ER-; 11/16, PR+/PR-; 14/13. Menopausal status were: 11 premenopausal, 16 postmenopausal. Of the 27 evaluable patients, there were 11 (40.7%) partial responses and no complete response. Overall response rate was 40.7%. Median time to progression was 7 months, and median survival was 14 months. Toxicities included grade 3–4 neutropenia in 9 (30%), thrombocytopenia in 6 (22%), anemia in 3(9%). There were no treatment releated deaths Conclusions: The combination of gemcitabine and docetaxel has shown favorable toxicity profile and promising activity in metastatic breast cancer patients. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


Author(s):  
Anima Rout ◽  
Priti Das ◽  
Ratikanta Tripathy ◽  
Dillip Kumar Agarwalla ◽  
Vedvyas Mishra

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring in women with an estimated prevalence of 28.94% in Cuttack, Odisha, India. Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) associated with the use of anticancer drugs is a worldwide problem which needs further attention. Aim: To know about treatment regimens, premedications used for toxicity amelioration or any associated ADRs occurring during treatment of stage II breast cancer patients. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective observational study carried out in the Department of Pharmacology in collabo- ration with Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Center (AHRCC), SCB Medical College and Hospital, Odisha, India. A total of 181 female breast cancer patients of stage II were finally analysed about their treatment protocol pattern including premedication, chemotherapy regimen, associated ADRs and their treatment. Different outcomes measured were Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC), febrile neutropenia, anaemia, thrombocytopenia. ADRs were analysed by using World Health Organisation-Uppsala Monitoring Centre (WHO-UMC) Scale and Hartwig-Siegel Scale. All analysis was performed using Statistical Package For the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 18.0. Results: Most common chemotherapy combination regimen used was cyclophosphamide+doxorubicin+paclitaxel+trastuzumab in 30.9% of patients, out of which 28.7% showed ADRs. Ondansetron and aprepitant were commonly used as premedication in 96% of patients. Most commonly reported ADR was Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) in 43.6% patients and Chemotherapy Induced Neutropenia (CIN) (34.8%). Fifty percent ADRs were mild and 3.3% ADRs were severe in nature. A 64% ADRs were possible and 23% ADRs were probable according to WHO-UMC causality assessment scale. Grade 4 Neutropenia was present in 1.3% patients. Mild haematological problems were treated by blood transfusion while severe cases by additional growth factor support like Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF). In this study, mean age of presentation was found to be 44.6 years. Conclusion: Despite use of drugs for toxicity amelioration, some grade four life threatening ADRs were observed. Mostly ADRs were missed and under-reported. Regular monitoring, increased care and patient compliance was needed to detect new ADRs and to reduce the morbidity as well as burden on the patients.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 3623-3623
Author(s):  
Jacob J. Adashek ◽  
Shumei Kato ◽  
Ryosuke Okamura ◽  
Noor Khalid ◽  
Suzanna Lee ◽  
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3623 Background: Although CDK4/6 inhibitors are established as a standard treatment option for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer patients, its benefit in other solid tumors is unclear. Moreover, no clear biomarker exists that predicts the response to CDK4/6 inhibitors. Herein, we investigated the factors associated with clinical outcomes from CDK4/6 inhibitor-based therapy, used alone or in combination with other therapies targeting genomic co-alterations, among diverse cancer patients with potentially sensitizing alterations in G1-S phase cell-cycle alterations (defined as CDK4/6 amplifications, CCND1/2/3 amplifications or CDKN2A/ B alterations). Methods: We interrogated molecular profiles of 2,457 patients with diverse solid tumors for G1-S phase cell-cycle alterations and co-altered genes using clinical-grade next generation sequencing (182-465 genes). Results: G1-S phase cell-cycle alterations occurred in 20.6% (507/2,457) of patients with 99% of those with cell cycle alterations (N = 501/507) harboring at least one characterized co-alteration (median, 4; range, 0-24). Significant improvement in median PFS was observed when CDK4/6 inhibitor-based therapies matched a larger proportion of tumor alterations, often by being given together with other drugs that were matched to genomic co-alterations, hence achieving a high Matching Score (high Matching Score [≥50%] vs. low Matching Score [ < 50%]: all cohorts including breast cancer [N = 58]: PFS: 6.2 vs. 3.2 months, P = 0.001; non-breast cancer cohort [N = 40]: PFS 6.2 vs. 2.0 months, P < 0.001 [multivariate]). (Matching Score roughly equivalent to number of alterations targeted divided by total number of characterized alterations). In contrast, targeting CDK4/6 alone in patients harboring cell-cycle pathway alterations along with other co-alterations, without targeting the genomic co-alterations, did not improve PFS even in patients who received matched CDK4/6 inhibitors as part of a combination regimen. Representative cases that were successfully treated with a matched combination strategy will also be presented. Conclusions: Most patients with G1-S phase cell-cycle alterations harbored co-genomic alterations. Our current study suggests that targeting co-alterations along with cell cycle molecular alterations may be necessary to achieve better clinical outcome. Further clinical investigation with larger numbers of patients are required.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Afshan Asghar Rasheed ◽  
Afshan Asghar Rasheed ◽  
Malik Babar ◽  
Muzaffar Narjis ◽  
Vallecha Aneeta ◽  
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Introduction: Cancer patients have concerns about treatment during COVID-19 pandemic virus as well as its impact on their health. This survey was conducted to ascertain perception of cancer patients and their attendants during this pandemic. Methods & Results: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Oncology OPD of SIUT, from May 2020 to July 2020 on cancer patients along with their attendants. Among 306 patients, 68.9% received chemotherapy. In response of each question, 1st one belonged to patients and 2nd was related to attendants. Only positive answers are reported here. For increasing gap of chemotherapy during the pandemic COVID-19, 58.3% vs 38.4% agreed with doctor recommendation. For start of single agent chemotherapy instead of combination regimen, 41% vs 19% agreed. For hospitalization 41.5%, vs 47.7% depicted inclination towards admission whereas for mental health questions, 63.7% vs 51.3% were neither afraid nor had psychological issues 79.7% vs 25.8% respectively. About COVID-19 testing, 66% vs 22.5% wanted to be tested. If results turned out positive, 82.2% vs 24.7% would go in isolation. Conclusion: This study provides evidence of perception of cancer patients with their attendants from resource restrained country. Our study confirms that for disease like cancer, fear of the illness is always more paramount than any infection.


1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 3483-3485 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Markman ◽  
A Kennedy ◽  
K Webster ◽  
B Kulp ◽  
G Peterson ◽  
...  

PURPOSE To examine the safety of administering paclitaxel to patients with preexisting significant cardiac risk factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS The medical records of gynecologic cancer patients with major cardiac risk factors who had been treated with paclitaxel (single-agent or combination regimen with cisplatin or carboplatin) at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1993 through February 1998 were examined to determine the acute toxicity of therapy. RESULTS A total of 15 patients were found who met these criteria, of whom none were found to have suffered a worsening of cardiac function following treatment with paclitaxel. A single patient developed a severe paclitaxel-associated hypersensitivity reaction, but no cardiac sequela. CONCLUSION This series suggests that paclitaxel can be safely administered as a single agent or in a combination regimen with a platinum agent to some patients with significant cardiac risk factors, such as those associated with ischemic heart disease. However, since few patients had baseline severe conduction defects before paclitaxel treatment, the safety of this drug in this clinical setting remains to be determined.


2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10720-10720 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Demiray ◽  
T. Evrensel ◽  
O. Kanat ◽  
E. Kurt ◽  
M. Arslan ◽  
...  

10720 Background: Trastuzumab provides significant clinical benefit in HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer. Gemcitabine and cisplatin (GC) combination is attractive treatment options for anthracyclines-taxanes-pretreated metastatic breast cancer. These agents demonstrated synergistic activity and minimal overlapping toxicity. On the other hand, additional synergistic activity was observed with trastuzumab and GC. Methods: Histologically confirmed metastatic breast cancer patients with FISH positive tumors (HER2/choromosome 17 ≥2) were eligible if they were at least one measurable disease; ≥18 and ≤70 years; life expectancy >3 month; ECOG 0–2; prior anthracyclines and taxanes treatment but no prior trastuzumab therapy; adequate marrow, renal and hepatic function. Treatment schedule was as follows: Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 and cisplatin 30 mg/m2 d1, 8 every 3 weeks conjunction with trastuzumab 4 mg/kg d1 and 2 mg/kg for weekly. Chemotherapy was scheduled for up to eight cycles. Treatment was discontinued in case of progression or prohibitive toxicity. After progression additional regimen was administered with trastuzumab. Results: Eleven women were enrolled. All patients were eligible for toxicity and efficacy evaluations. Median age was 48 (range 28–64) years and median ECOG performance status was 0. Ten patients (90.9%) had visceral metastases, most commonly located in the liver (8 pts) and lung (4 pts). Estrogen receptor positivity was 63.6% (7 pts). A total of 80 cycles were delivered with a median of 8 cycles. Objective response rate was 54.5% (6 pts) with 27.2% (3 pts) complete response and 27.2% (3 pts) partial response. Stabile disease was achieved 36.3% (4 pts). Median time to progression and overall survival were 8 (95% CI: 3.97–12.02) and 18 months (95% CI: 15.89–20.10) respectively. Grade 3–4 toxicity was observed in 18.1% (2 pts). Treatment of one patient was discontinued due to grade 4 thrombocytopenia. Dose reductions due to myelotoxicity were performed in 1 (9.0%) patients. Conclusions: Our preliminary data shows that gemcitabine and cisplatin and trastuzumab combination regimen is effective and has manageable toxicity profile. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


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