Bokhman YaV | PubMed Health

PubMed1993

Favourable influence of adjuvant hormone therapy by oxyprogesterone caproate (OPC) and by its combination with tamoxifen on 5-year survival rate of surgical and combined treatment of primary endometrial carcinoma patients.

In a prospective and randomized study comprising 540 primary endometrial carcinoma patients the influence of adjuvant hormone therapy by Oxyprogesterone caproate (OPC) and by its combination with Tamoxifen on the corrected survival rates after surgical and combined (surgical and irradiation) therapy was investigated. As was shown OPC administered preoperatively and after surgical and combined therapy from 6 up to 36 months increased the corrected survival rates as compared with that in patients who did not receive hormone treatment. Combination of OPC and Tamoxifen administered additionally to surgical and combined therapy increase the corrected survival rate at the 5th year by 19%. One can conclude that adjuvant hormone therapy in endometrial carcinoma patients who have unfavourable prognosis of the disease must be administered for not less than 3 years in order to obtain prolongation of remission of the disease.

17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate↗

PubMed1992

The controversial 'second-look' laparotomy.

To determine optimal indications for and clinical assessment of the significance of relaparotomy, the data of 304 women with malignant ovarian tumours (of epithelial origin, predominantly, 72%) who had undergone a 'second-look' operation were analysed. 'Second-look' relaparotomies were performed 10-22 months after the initial operation, on the following clinical indications: 1) clinical remission after initial combined treatment (surgery + chemotherapy) in cases where malignant cells are found at systematically performed cytological examinations of ??? or lavage from peritoneal surfaces of the Douglas cul-de-sac plus high levels of CA 125 in blood serum (8 patients with stages I and II, FIGO classification); 2) remission after adequate combined treatment and following 6-10 cycles of polychemotherapy, in order to decide whether to abandon or continue with treatment (13 patients with stages III and IV); 3) clinical remission following initial operation which was voluminously non-radical (117 patients); 4) suspicion of tumour recurrence after adequate combined treatment (114 patients); 5) no suspicion of cancer recurrence, though with ventral hernia or other pathology requiring relaparotomy (22 patients). Complications arising at the 'second-look' operation or during the postoperative period were observed in 29 of the 304 patients (9.5%), giving a postoperative mortality of 0.9%. According to experience, the positive significance of 'second-look' operations to optimize treatment of patients with malignant ovarian tumours is obvious.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗