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Evidence from preclinical models and from clinical trials describing the importance of dose intensity in securing a better treatment outcome is reviewed. Recent randomized trials have shown statistically significant survival benefits with higher-dose, accelerated chemotherapy regimens with and without granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. The novel use of peripheral blood progenitor cells contained in whole blood autotransfusions, which allow a marked increase in dose intensity of an ifosfamide/carboplatin/etoposide regimen, could provide a much easier method of delivering dose-intensive chemotherapy than previously available.

Type

Journal article

Journal

Semin Oncol

Publication Date

04/1998

Volume

25

Pages

12 - 18

Keywords

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Carcinoma, Small Cell, Chemotherapy, Adjuvant, Clinical Trials as Topic, Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Humans, Lung Neoplasms