Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on June 9, 2005
Annals of Oncology 2005 16(7):997-998; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdi231
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© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology
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Front-line doublets in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: The golden age for second line chemotherapy
1 Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France2 Institut National du Cancer, Paris, France
* Email: tle-che@igr.fr
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A doublet chemotherapy, generally cisplatin or carboplatin-based, is the standard of care in the management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, defined as unresectable stage IIIB or stage IV disease [1
]. Numerous trials have established the superiority of third generation cytotoxic agent combinations over old fashion regimens (24). In one of these studies published by Bonomi et al., the classical etoposide-cisplatin doublet (EC, etoposide 100 mg/m2 days 1 to 3, plus cisplatin 75 mg/m2 day 1) was compared with two different paclitaxel-cisplatin regimens (cisplatin 75 mg/m2 plus paclitaxel 135 or 250 mg/m2 as
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