LYMPHOMA : HODGKIN'S DISEASE

 

Regimen/Number

Of Patients

Drug Dose and Route

Leukopenia/

Neutropenia

Toxicity

Anemia

Toxicity

Other

Grade III-IV Toxicities

Emetogenic

Potential

Consequences of

Adverse Event(s)

ABVD

(Canellos GP, et al.

N Engl J. Med.

1992; 327: 1478 -84)

 

N= 115

Doxorubicin 25 mg/m2  IV days 1, 15

Bleomycin 10 units /m2 IV days 1, 15

Vinblastine 6 mg/m2 IV day 1, 15

Repeat cycle every 28 days

 

Neutropenia

Grade III-IV

%

 

Grade III-IV 5%

Infection 2 %

Thrombocytopenia

(Grade IV)  5%

Alpecia (Grade III) 24 %

Pulmonary Toxicity 6%

Peripheral Neuropathy 1%

Nausea / Vomiting 33%

Days 1, 15-

Level 5

Death due to pulmonary

toxicity 3%

More than 80% of

Patients received

full-dose doxorubicin

in each of the first

6 cycles

 

ChIVPP

(Selby P , et al.

Br J Cancer.

1990; 62: 279 – 85)

 

N= 284

 

Chlorambucil 6 mg/m2/d PO days 1-14,

max 10 mg/day

Vinblastine 6 mg/m2 IV days 1, 8 ,

max 10 mg/day

Procarbazine 100 mg/d PO days 1 – 14,

max 150 mg/day

Prednisolone 40 mg/d PO days 1 – 14

Repeat cycle every 28 days

Leukopenia

Grade III 7 %

Grade IV 2 %

 

 

Infection 3%

Thrombocytopenia 5%

Nausea/Vomiting 2%

Alopecia < 1%

Days 1 -1 4-

Level 4

Infection mortality < 1%

Dose delayed 1 week

in 31 % of patients

Dose delayed 2 weeks

In 33 % of patients

 

MOPP

(Canellos GP, et al.

N Engl J Med.

1992;327: 1478-84)

 

N= 123

 

Mechlorethamine 6 mg/m2 IV days 1 , 8

Vincristine 1. 4 mg/m2 IV days 1, 8

(maximum 2 mg)

Procarbazine 100 mg/m2/d PO days 1 -1 4

Prednisone 40 mg/m2/d PO days 1 - 14

Repeat cycle every 28 days

Neutropenia

Grade III 47%

Grade IV 21 %

Grade IV 1 %

 

Grade III 31 %

Grade IV 12 %

Infection (Grade IV) 12 %

Thrombocytopenia 51%

Nausea/Vomiting

(Grade III) 28 %

Peripheral Neuropathy

(Grade III) 8%

Alopecia (Grade III) 5%

Pulmonary Toxicity 4 %

 

Days 1, 8 –

Level 5

Days 2 – 7-

Level 4

Days 9 – 14 –

Level 4

Over time there was a

gradual reduction in

the percentage of

patients receiving the

prescribed dose, from

80 %  in cycle 1 to

24% in cycle 6

  

 

LYMPHOMA : HODGKIN'S DISEASE  (continued ) : Page 2

 

Regimen/Number

Of Patients

Drug Dose and Route

Leukopenia/

Neutropenia

Toxicity

Anemia

Toxicity

Other

Grade III-IV Toxicities

Emetogenic

Potential

Consequences of

Adverse Event(s)

Stanford V

(Horning SJ, et al.

J Clin Oncol.

2002; 20: 630-7)

 

 

N= 142

 

Methclorethamine 6 mg/m2 IV day 1

Doxorubicin 25 mg/m2 IV days 1, 15

Vinblastine * 6 mg/m2 IV days 1,15

Vincristine * 1.4 mg/m2 (maximum 2 mg) IV

days 8 , 22

Bleomycin 5 units /m2 IV days 8, 22

Etoposide 60 mg/m2 IV days 15, 16

Prednisone 40 mg/m2 PO QOD, dose

tapered by 10 mg QOD starting at the

end of week 10

Repeat cycle every 28 days

Appropriate premedications listed in Section 2,

Commonly Used Premedication Regimens

 

In patients ≥ 50 years of age, vinblastine

dose decreased to 4 mg /m2 , and vincristione

dose decreased to 1 mg/m2 durign cycle  3,.

Note: Concomitant trimethoprim / sulfa-

methoxazolo ; acyclovir. H 2 antagonists.

and stool softeners used.

Neutropenia

Grade IV 82%

 

Grade III 27%

Grade IV 3.5%

Febrile Neutropenia  14%

Thrombocytopenia

(Grade III)< 1 %

Fatigue ( Grade III) 7 %

Constipation

( Grade III) 11%

Neuromuscular

(Grade III) 3.5 %
Neurosensory

(Grade III) 6%

pain (Grade III ) 7%

 

Day 1 –

Level 5

Day  8 -

Level 1

Day 15 –

Level 4

Day 16 –

Level 2

Day 22-

Level 1

25% of patients

hospitalized during or

within 2 months of

completing therapy

with Stanford V

Severe constipation 7 %

Deep vein

thrombosis 1.4 %

1 patient developed a

secondary malignancy

Fertility preserved in a

significant percentage

of  patients

Filgrastim was

Incorporated after

intial dose reduction

or delay in 1991:

G-CSF was

administered for

5 days on the odd

weeks after

myelosuppressive

therapy, and a total

of 94 patients (66%)

received G-CSF

Erythropoietin therapy

was permitted for

anemia management

at investigator

discretion