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One-hundred-twenty patients with advanced lung cancer were treated by the MACC (methotrexate, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), cyclophosphamide and CCNU) regimen. Ninety-eight patients were evaluated. Objective complete response occurred in one case for 27+ months. Partial response was observed in 20 patients lasting for a median of 4.7 months. The overall objective response rate was 21% and the median duration of response was 5.5 months. Stable disease was noted in 44 patients with a median time to progression of 4.7 months from the start of treatment. Tumor progression occurred in 33 cases. There was a significant prolongation of median actuarial survival of responders (11.2 months) vs. stable disease (6.2 months) or vs. non-responders (3.8 months, P less than 0.05). The median actuarial survival for the whole group was 7.3 months. Bone marrow toxicity including thrombocytopenia (less than 100,000 cells/mm3) occurred in 16 patients and leukopenia (less than 3000 cells/mm3) in 24 patients. Forty-seven patients had no hematologic toxicity. Other adverse reactions were nausea and vomiting (50%), stomatitis (16%), alopecia (5%), cardiotoxicity (1%) and fever during leukopenia (1%).
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PMID:Four-drug combination chemotherapy in advanced lung cancer: methotrexate, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and CCNU. 702 45

This phase I trial of idarubicin (IDA) was conducted in 32 patients with acute leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in blastic crisis (CML/BC) who either had failed to achieve a complete remission (CR) after initial induction therapy or had relapsed after CR. IDA was administered at dosages ranging from an initial dose of 5 mg/m2/d for 3 days with an increment of 2.5 mg/m2/d to 15 mg/m2/d for 3 days. The dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) were thought to be stomatitis and anorexia. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) was determined to be 15 mg/m2/d for 3 days (45 mg/m2 per course). Bone marrow toxicity was significant when greater than 10 mg/m2/d of IDA was given. When IDA was administered at this dosage or higher, there were three CRs and four partial responses, with an overall response rate of 26.9% in 26 assessable patients. It is recommended that a phase II study be undertaken at an IDA dosage of 10 to 15 mg/m2/d for 3 consecutive days in the treatment of acute leukemia. Twenty-one of 32 patients were also studied for the pharmacokinetics of IDA. The terminal half-life (t1/2) values for IDA were 6.4 to 15.1 hours in plasma and 8.09 to 16.34 hours in blood cells. The t1/2 values for idarubicinol were much longer: 43.46 to 51.01 hours in plasma and 36.61 to 54.70 hours in blood cells. Concentrations of idarubicinol in plasma and blood cells exceeded those of IDA 2 to 4 hours after the start of treatment and remained elevated for a long time. The area under the curve (AUC) of idarubicinol in plasma was 5.16 to 8.36 times higher than that of IDA, and the AUC of idarubicinol in blood cells was 2.05 to 4.57 times higher than that of IDA. The AUCs of both IDA and idarubicinol increased dose-dependently over the dosage range of 5 to 15 mg/m2/d. When two-compartment multiple-dose models were used, plasma t1/2 alpha and t1/2 beta values of IDA were 0.25 +/- 0.13 and 9.4 +/- 3.4 hours, respectively. The steady-state volume of distribution (Vdss) was 934.9 +/- 370.7 L/m2, and the plasma clearance was 82.3 +/- 29.7 L/h/m2. The urinary excretion of IDA and its metabolite was low. The mean cumulative urinary recovery rates were 2.04% for IDA and 11.53% for idarubicinol up to 7 days.
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PMID:A phase I study of idarubicin hydrochloride in patients with acute leukemia. The Idarubicin Study Group of Japan. 891 10