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S Jelić

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PubMed1976

[Our experiences in the treatment of acute leukemias].

This paper deals with observations concerning treatment of acute leukemia in the Department of haematology of The Clinical hospital of Belgrade during the period from 1970 to 1975, and with results of the treatment itself. During the last five years, 27 patients with different types of acute leukemia were treated. The type of acute leukemia was determined using cytological criteria of Levy and Lortholary and cytochemical criteria as described by Hayhoe. One thrid of the patients died during the first days of hospitalisation, before any effect of cytostatic treatment could be evaluated. The cause of death in those patients was septic shock, intracranial haemorrhage or cardiovascular colapsus; initial signs of those complications of acute leukemia were allready present before diagnosis. Those data point to the fact that diagnosis of acute leukemia is often made too late, when irreversible ocmplications of the disease are allready established. Patients over sixty, often "fragile" to aggresive cytostatic therapy, may enter complete and relatively long lasting remission with induction therapy cosisting of 6-mercaptopurine and methotrexate only. Allthough the number of cases was rather limited, the authors had rather disappointing results with the 06-LA-66 protocole in adult lymphoblastic leukemia. The first with COAP treatment protocole seem encouraging. Adequate cytostatic therapy was in several cases impossible, duo to the lack of adequate substitution therapy; such inadequate cytostatic therapy resulted in partial remissions with a rather poor quality survival. A beeter cooperation is needed between hospital centers and institutions which provide matherial for the substitution theapy.

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Primary gastric non-Hodgkin's lymphoma localized to the gastric wall: no adjuvant treatment following radical surgery.

The paper presents the experience with watch-and-wait policy following radical surgery in 25 patients with primary gastric non-Hodgkin's (NH) lymphoma localized to the gastric wall. The median follow-up is at the moment 40 months (range 18-85). Only 3/25 patients have relapsed (during the first year of the follow-up) and achieved a complete response following chemotherapy. The median disease-free interval following surgery is at the moment 40+ months, and the median survival 40+ months. Primary gastric NH lymphoma localized to the gastric wall, regardless of the histological grade, probably does not need any adjuvant treatment following radical surgery. In occasional patients with lymphoma relapse, the disease can be controlled by additional chemotherapy.

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Impaired perforin-dependent NK cell cytotoxicity and proliferative activity of peripheral blood T cells is associated with metastatic melanoma.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND: Patients with metastatic melanoma often have defects in the percentage and function of peripheral blood NK cells, which are involved in the non-specific innate antitumor immune response, and T cells, which participate in the specific acquired antitumor immune response. The aim of this study was to investigate in more detail not only the percentage but also the activation status and function of NK and T cells in patients with metastatic melanoma prior to therapy. METHODS: The percentage of peripheral blood CD56+ NK cells, CD3+ T cells and their CD4+ and CD8+ subsets, as well as the expression of the activation antigens CD69, CD38 and HLA-DR were analyzed by flow cytometry. The functional capacity of NK cells was evaluated by the 51-chromium release cytotoxicity assay, while the proliferative activity of T cells was estimated by the lymphocyte transformation test to mitogen phytohemagglutinin. RESULTS: The results obtained in this study have revealed a new aspect of NK and T cell dysfunction that is not, as commonly reported, associated with a decrease in their percentage. Moreover, a significant number of the investigated patients had a higher percentage of NK cells that did not lead to improved NK cell cytotoxicity as a result of the detected defect in the NK cell perforin-mediated cytotoxic mechanism of tumor cell lysis. The impaired proliferative response of T cells was associated with a decreased expression of the activation antigen HLA-DR. CONCLUSION: The novel finding in this study of melanoma patients with metastatic disease is the impaired perforin-dependent NK cell cytotoxic mechanism, which was recently shown to be primarily responsible for preventing metastasis. Another interesting finding was the generally hyporeactive status of T cells, possibly resulting from persistent antigenic stimulation. The observed dysfunction of NK and T cells in patients with metastatic melanoma prior to therapy point to the need to supplement chemotherapy with appropriate immunotherapeutic agents in order to overcome the immunosuppression associated with advanced malignancy.

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Pilot study of daily ifosfamide 1 g/m2 until grade III granulocytopenia as second-line chemotherapy for anthracycline-pretreated advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Second-line chemotherapy regimens for advanced soft tissue sarcomas after treatment failure or tumor relapse following anthracyclines are still investigational. The aim of the present study was to assess the activity of ifosfamide with a new schedule for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma failing to achieve remission or relapsing following anthracycline-containing regimens; it was attempted to individualize dosages and prevent excessive toxicity. STUDY DESIGN: A second-line chemotherapy regimen of ifosfamide 1 g/m2 daily, with drug withdrawal until the next cycle upon appearance of grade III granulocytopenia, was administered to 21 patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma. All patients failed to achieve remission or relapsed following a first-line high-dose anthracycline regimen (epirubicin 180 mg/m2 or zorubicin 600 mg/m2 per cycle). The cycles were repeated every four weeks. RESULTS: The median number of cycles applied was three (range, 1-15). The ifosfamide dosage reached was 4-13 g/m2 per cycle, median 5 g/m2. A complete response was achieved in 1/21 patient (5%), no partial responses were observed, 4/21 patients (20%) had stable disease, and 16/21 (75%) had progressive disease. No difference in response and stable disease rates was observed between responders and non-responders to first-line chemotherapy. No difference in the ifosfamide dose reached was noted between patients receiving second-line chemotherapy directly following first-line therapy and those with a time interval between first- and second-line chemotherapy. The granulocytopenia grade III nadir lasted for a median of one day (range, 1-3) and other toxicities including hematological toxicity were mild and infrequent. CONCLUSIONS: In view of the swift regeneration from grade III granulocytopenia, continuation of the study with granulocytopenia grade IV as a limiting factor for ifosfamide dose escalation seems feasible, with the prospect of better efficacy without excessive toxicity.

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Mitoxantrone, 5-fluorouracil and low-dose leucovorin in doxorubicin-resistant advanced breast cancer patients: a phase II study.

AIM: Twenty-two anthracycline-resistant advanced breast cancer patients were entered from June 1995 till November 1997 in a phase II study to assess the activity and tolerability of second-line chemotherapy consisting of mitoxantrone, 5-fluorouracil and low-dose leucovorin. STUDY DESIGN: Patients were eligible if they failed to respond to doxorubicin-containing chemotherapy, given as first-line chemotherapy for metastatic disease. Treatment consisted of mitoxantrone, 12 mg/m2 iv infusion on day 1, and leucovorin, 50 mg iv 1 hr before 5-fluorouracil, 350 mg/m2 iv infusion on days 1-3, every three weeks. RESULTS: Nineteen patients were eligible for response, 2 refused further therapy after 2 cycles, and 1 was excluded because grade 3 myelotoxicity developed during the first cycle. Partial remission of 15 months duration occurred in 1 patient, in 7/19 women disease remained stable with a median duration of 11 months (range, 5-24), and 11/19 patients experienced progressive disease. Median time to disease progression was 2 months (range, 0-17), and median survival was 8 months (range, 0-24). Toxicity was generally mild and acceptable. One patient was excluded because of grade 3 granulocytopenia and thrombocytopenia, and one due to cardiotoxicity assessed by the drop of left ventricular ejection fraction to more than 20% below the initial value. CONCLUSIONS: In spite of the very low objective response rate, almost one-fourth of our anthracycline-resistant patients achieved a disease stabilization of 27 weeks duration during mitoxantrone-based second-line chemotherapy. Hence, mitoxantrone in combination with 5-fluorouracil, especially continuous infusion, should be further investigated in this setting, particularly if new and expensive drugs, considered the most active, are not readily available.

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