[High-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) for refractory bone and soft tissue sarcomas]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1999 Sep;26(10):1431-5.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

High-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation was administered to 10 patients with refractory bone and soft tissue sarcoma (2 patients with primitive neuroectodermal tumor, 4 patients with Ewing's sarcoma, 3 patients with synovial sarcoma and one patient with osteosarcoma). Busulfan 4 mg/kg x 4, melphalan 140 mg/m2 and thiotepa 200 mg/m2 x 3 were used in the high-dose chemotherapy. Complications related to the treatment were limited to one patient who developed hepatic veno-occlusive disease, no serious complications were seen in the other patients. Four patients died of their disease, one patient was alive with the disease and 5 patients were alive with no evidence of disease. The prognosis for non-resectable primitive neuroectodermal tumor and Ewing's sarcoma is said to be very poor. However, there are some patients in whom the disease is kept in remission by high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, so this therapy may be a possible substitute for radical operation. With spindle cell sarcomas, the efficacy of this treatment was temporary, so it will be necessary to investigate frequent high-dose chemotherapy and to change the high-dose chemotherapy regimen.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage*
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Bone Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Busulfan / administration & dosage
  • Child
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Female
  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / administration & dosage
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Melphalan / administration & dosage
  • Sarcoma / therapy*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / therapy
  • Sarcoma, Synovial / therapy
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Thiotepa / administration & dosage
  • Transplantation, Autologous

Substances

  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
  • Thiotepa
  • Busulfan
  • Melphalan