Local hyperthermia, hyperfractionated radiation, and cisplatin in preirradiated recurrent lymph node metastases of recurrent head and neck cancer
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- Published online on: March 1, 1997 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.10.3.591
- Pages: 591-595
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Abstract
Large tumor size is a negative prognostic variable for attaining complete regression (CR) with local hyperthermia (HT) and radiotherapy (RT). Such poor prognosis lesions (i.e., >7 cm(2) or >14 cm(3)) have an expected CR rate of similar to 30+/-8%. To improve on this result we added cisplatin to HT and RT with standard fractionation (std Fx) in an earlier study, and observed a 19% CR rate in head and neck (H&N) patients. We now report the results of a second generation trial combining HT, cisplatin (40 mg/m(2)) and hyperfractionated RT in a series of 13 pretreated poor prognosis H&N patients. Therapy encompassed 44 triple modality sessions and was well tolerated: toxicity included one episode of grade-3 skin reaction and one grade 1 leukopenia. Although the overall remission rate was 92%, the CR rate was only 8%; this resulted in early closure of this trial concluding that hyperfractionated RT had no (over std Fx RT) benefit in this combined modality approach.