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Table 3 Concomitant Chemotherapy

From: Diagnostic and treatment modalities for patients with cervical lymph node metastases of unknown primary site – current status and challenges

Study

Concomitant chemotherapy No.(%)

Locoregional control

Overall survival

Yalin, 2002

UC, SCC: COP or PCV

AC: PCV 114 (100)

NR

UC: 32%, SCC: 33%

AC: 38% at 5 years

Boscolo-Rizzo, 2006

Platinum based 9 (11)

NR

25% at 5 years, 19% at 10 years

Beldi, 2007

Platinum based 21 (19)

disease free survival 27% at 5 years

41% at 5 years

Corry, 2008

Platinum based 102 (100)

neck failure ultimately 9%

60% at 3 years

Ligey, 2009

Platinum based 43 (45)

neck control 66% at 5 years

24% at 5 years

Lu, 2009

Platinum based 14 (23)

neck control 66% at 5 years

69% at 5 years

Chen, 2011

Platinum based 32 (53)

locoregional control 89% at 2 years

89% at 2 years

Wallace, 2011

Ctx (drugs NR) 13 (7)

mucosal control 92% and neck control 81% at 5 years

52% at 5 years

Fakhrian, 2012

Ctx 19 (29)

Cis based 10, 5-FU + MMC 9

locoregional lymph node recurrence, ultimately 14%

48% at 5 years

Tribius, 2012

Cis 38 (60)

neck recurrence 25%, median 7 months

76% at 2 years

Demiroz, 2013

Ctx, 4 regimes 25 (61)

LRFS: dRT: 75%

ND + RT: 76% at 4 years

definitve RT: 85%

ND + RT: 85% at 4 years

Straetmans, 2014

Carbo 8 (16)

neck recurrence ultimately 18%

55% at 5 years

  1. Abbrevations: SCC squamous cell carcinoma, UC undifferentiated carcinoma, AC adenocarcinoma, EC epidermoid carcinoma, Ctx chemotherapy, Cis cisplatin, 5FU 5-flurouracil, MMC mitomycin C, Carbo carboplatin, COP cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisolone, PCV cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine [10, 11, 53, 76, 77, 79,80,81,82,83,84,85]