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    Vopr Onkol. 2000;46(5):604-7.

    [Combination chemotherapy with hexamethylamine (Hexalen, Altretamine, Hexastat) and sarcolysine in advanced ovarian carcinoma]

    [Article in Russian]

    Gershanovich ML, Livshits ME, Antipenkova VI.

    N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, Ministry of Health of the RF, St. Petersburg.

    Combination chemotherapy with hexamethylmelamine (hexalen, altretamine, hexastat), 100 mg, thrice a day, per os, 14 days (out of a 28-day course) and sarcolysin, 15 mg, per os, during the first 5 days of the course, was received by 24 patients with primary advanced tumors of the ovaries, prior to or after cytoreductive surgery. Total apparent response to chemotherapy among 19 patients of the study group was 47.2%, clinically significant (plus stabilization)--94.5%, without significant untoward side-effects (vomiting--19%; leukopenia degree II-III--33% and thrombocytopenia--19%). The drug proved an active component of combination therapy for advanced ovarian carcinoma.

    PMID: 11202196 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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      Your doctor has ordered the drug melphalan to help treat your illness. The drug can be taken as tablets by mouth on an empty stomach or it can be given by injection into a vein.

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