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A 2 and a half year-old boy with neurofibromatosis developed unilateral proptosis, decreased visual acuity, and optic disk edema. After the discovery and removal of an optic nerve glioma, the patient had ten years of excellent health until he began having headaches, nausea, and vomiting. He had
OBJECTIVE
To investigate feasibility, activity and toxicity of pre-irradiation chemotherapy (CHT) in patients with newly diagnosed high-grade astrocytoma.
METHODS
Thirty-five patients with glioblastoma multiform (GBM) and ten patients with anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) entered into this study. Three
BOPP chemotherapy regimen was introduced in patients with high-grade astrocytoma after surgery and radiotherapy. There were 10 anaplastic astrocytomas and 19 multiforme glioblastomas. Protocol consisted of BCNU 50 mg/m2, days 1-3, Vincristine 1,4 mg/m2 (max 2 mg), day 1, Procarbazine 50 mg/m2, days
BACKGROUND
In incompletely resected low-grade supratentorial astrocytoma, long-term survival is poor; the effect of any additional treatment to surgery still remains poorly defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the response, the survival, and the benefit of concomitant chemoradiotherapy in
The efficacy and safety of temozolomide were evaluated in 32 patients with anaplastic astrocytoma at first relapse. Temozolomide was administered orally once daily for the first five days of a 28-day cycle, at a dose of 150 or 200 mg/m(2)/day. The response rate determined by independent central
Nineteen patients with biopsy-proven high-grade astrocytomas received as initial treatment whole-brain radiation and combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), 1,000 mg/m2/24 h as a continuous infusion for 96 h, and bolus cisdiamminedichloroplatinum II (CDDP), 100 mg/m2. Chemotherapy
Twenty patients with astrocytomas recurrent after surgery +/- radiation were treated on a phase II protocol of the new anthracycline derivative menogaril 115 mg/m2 administered intravenously once per week. Sixteen patients were evaluable for treatment efficacy. No patient achieved a major
BACKGROUND
The primary objective of this prospective phase 2 study of CPT-11 in adult patients with recurrent temozolomide-refractory anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) was to evaluate 6-month progression-free survival (PFS).
METHODS
Forty patients (27 men and 13 women) ages 17 to 58 years (median age, 38
BACKGROUND
Clinical studies have shown that temozolomide (TMZ) and irinotecan demonstrate activity in high grade astrocytic tumors (HGAT). However, the optimal schedule of administration is unknown.
METHODS
In the present study, a total of 45 HGAT patients, 38 with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and
(1) Temozolomide, a cytotoxic agent, was recently licensed in France for treating patients with anaplastic astrocytoma who are in relapse or progression after standard therapy. (2) The clinical dossier contains only one non comparative trial. (3) In this trial, 111 patients with anaplastic
Nineteen assessable patients with recurrent malignant astrocytomas who had failed standard therapy (surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy) were treated on a phase I-II trial with a biologic extract of Serratia marcescens (ImuVert; Cell Technology, Boulder, CO) a new biologic response modifier
This patient presented with a rare case of metachronous, multicentric gliomas first manifesting as headache and nausea in 1983 when he was an 8-year-old boy. Computed tomography revealed a cerebellar tumor and the tumor was subtotally resected. The histological diagnosis was pilocytic astrocytoma,
The authors report the case of a 14-year-old male with a subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) that occurred in the absence of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). The patient presented with progressive headache and the sudden onset of nausea and vomiting. Neuroimaging revealed an enhancing left
Although cisplatin may have intrinsic activity against astrocytoma, limited penetration into the central nervous system may severely curtail delivery of adequate amounts of drug to the tumor. In an attempt to increase the dose of delivered drug without markedly increasing toxicity, cisplatin was
Experimental and early clinical investigations have demonstrated encouraging results for estramustine in the treatment of malignant glioma. The present study is an open randomized clinical trial comparing estramustine phosphate (Estracyt) in addition to radiotherapy with radiotherapy alone as first