[Metastatic neuroblastoma: consolidation treatment with 2 courses of high-dose chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow autograft]

Bull Cancer. 1988;75(1):119-23.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Among 62 children over 1 year of age at diagnosis who were treated for stage IV neuroblastoma, 33 entered remission after conventional therapy. They received high-dose chemotherapy and in vitro purged bone marrow transplantation as consolidation therapy. Fifteen patients received one course and 18 two courses. At present, 16/33 grafted patients are alive in CR with a median follow-up of 28 months. Toxicity of this regimen was tolerable. Under this treatment, actuarial disease free survival is improved compared with that observed under conventional therapy.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation*
  • Carmustine / administration & dosage
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Melphalan / administration & dosage
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Neuroblastoma / drug therapy
  • Neuroblastoma / pathology
  • Neuroblastoma / secondary
  • Neuroblastoma / therapy*
  • Prognosis
  • Teniposide / administration & dosage
  • Transplantation, Autologous

Substances

  • Teniposide
  • Melphalan
  • Carmustine