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J Korean Cancer Assoc > Volume 26(1); 1994 > Article
Journal of the Korean Cancer Association 1994;26(1): 9-16.
진행위암에 대한 5 - Fluorouracil , Etoposide , Doxorubicin 및 Cisplatin ( F - EAP ) 복합화학요법의 치료효과
항암화학요법연구회
A Phase 2 Study on Combined 5 - Fluorouracil , Etoposide , Doxorubicin and Cisplatin ( F - EAP ) in Patients with Advanced Gastric Cancer
ABSTRACT
5-Fluorouracil(5-FU), as a single agent, has a modest but reproducible activity against gastric cancer and continuous infusion of 5-FU is associated with less myelosuppresion. It has been reported that combination of etoposide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin(EAP) was very active in advanced gastric carcinoma with an overall response rate of 64% including 21% complete response from the German investigators. A phase II study of the combination of 5-FU infusion, etoposide, doxorubicin and cisplatin(F-EAP), which regimen has been demonstrated to have the different mechanisms of action and synergism between each of drugs in vitro and in vivo, was performed in attempts to evaluate the antitumor activity in patients with advanced gastric cancer. Fifty-five previously untreated patients with surgically unreasectable or metastatic advanced gastric adenocarcinoma were treated with 5-FU(800 mg/m, days 2, 3, and 4), etoposide(70 mg/m, days 2, 3, and 4), doxorubicin(30 mg/m, day 1), and cisplatin(60 mg/m(2), day 1) repeated every 26 days. Objective responses were observed in 14 of 47(30%) evaluable patients, and the median duration of response was 21 weeks(l3~60+ ). The median survival time of 47 evaluable patients was 40 weeks(16~62). F-EAP therapy was associated with mild myelosuppression. The common non-hematologic toxieities were nausea/vomiting(94%), mucositis(32%), peripheral neuropathy (15%), and infection(11%), but the majority of these toxicities were mild to moderate and well tolerated. These results suggest that F-EAP regimen has a modest antitumor activity in terms of response rate and duration of response, and is relatively well tolerated in advanced gastric cancer.
Key words: 5-Fluorouracil, Eto#poside, Doxorubicin, Cisplatin, Advanced gastric cancer
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