[Prospective adjuvant chemotherapy of mitomycin C plus HCFU for colorectal cancer (2d report)--6-year survival after surgery: Tokai Cooperative Study Group of Surgical Adjuvant Chemotherapy]

Gan No Rinsho. 1988 Apr;34(4):451-6.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A prospective randomized controlled trial of adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer was performed in forty-one institutions in Tokai district. In this study, effect of postoperative administration of mitomycin C (MMC) and followed by HCFU for more than 3 months (group B) was on the survival time compared with MMC alone (group A). Of 173 patients subjected to curative resection (group A = 80, group B = 93) for colorectal cancer, 148 patients including 69 cases of group A and 79 cases of group B were eligible for survival study. At six years after surgery, Kaplan-Meire's life table showed that the survival of group B was superior to that of group A (generalized Wilcoxon test: p = 0.0446). The difference of survival curves was more distinct (generalized Wilcoxon test: p = 0.0226) for patients of advanced stage those to have lymph node metastasis time and serosal inversion.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / therapeutic use*
  • Administration, Oral
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Colectomy / mortality*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Colonic Neoplasms / mortality*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Fluorouracil / administration & dosage
  • Fluorouracil / analogs & derivatives
  • Humans
  • Mitomycin
  • Mitomycins / administration & dosage
  • Postoperative Care*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Rectal Neoplasms / mortality*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Mitomycins
  • Mitomycin
  • carmofur
  • Fluorouracil