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Topotecan versus paclitaxel in second-line therapy: a lost opportunity for quality-of-life evaluation?
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ten Bokkel Huinink et al., on behalf of the International Topotecan Group, have recently published a paper on the long-term outcomes of 226 patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer who failed one prior platinum-based regimen and were enrolled in a multicentre randomised phase III study comparing topotecan versus paclitaxel as second-line therapy [1
].
This study is an update of a study whose main results were previously published in 1997 and 2001 [2
, 3
]. In the first paper, activity (response rate, duration of
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