• Cancer treatment reports · Jul 1984

    Doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD) salvage of mechlorethamine, vincristine, prednisone, and procarbazine (MOPP)-resistant advanced Hodgkin's disease.

    • A Piga, A Ambrosetti, G Todeschini, G Cetto, G Perona, and R Cellerino.
    • Cancer Treat Rep. 1984 Jul 1; 68 (7-8): 947-51.

    AbstractThirty-nine patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease were treated with doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD). Thirty-one of these patients had previously failed to respond to MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, prednisone, and procarbazine) treatment (29 patients) or to CCVPP (lomustine, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) treatment (two patients). Twenty-seven patients were considered evaluable: eight (30%) achieved complete remission (CR), two (7%) achieved partial remission (PR), and 17 (63%) had no response. All of the complete responders are still in continuous unmaintained CR, while 14 of the 19 partial responders and nonresponders have died. The overall median survival was 21 months; it was 16 months for partial responders and nonresponders. The remaining eight patients had ABVD substituted to MOPP early in treatment, because of allergy to procarbazine: six patients achieved CR and two achieved PR. Our results are in keeping with the literature data and confirm the effectiveness of ABVD as primary and salvage treatment in advanced Hodgkin's disease.

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