Belotecan and Cisplatin Combination Chemotherapy for Previously Untreated Extensive-Disease Small Cell Lung Cancer

Abstract

2 /day) on day 1 of a 3-week cycle. Results: Of the 19 assessable patients, 16 had an objective tumor response, including two complete responses, for an overall response rate of 84.2%. Toxicity was evaluated in all 20 patients who received a total of 106 cycles (median cycles/patient, 5.5; range, 1 ∼9). The major grade 3/4 hematologic toxicities were neutropenia (67.9% of cycles), anemia (19.8% of cycles) and thrombocytopenia (33.9% of cycles). No grade 3/4 non-hematologic toxicities were observed. No treatment-related deaths occurred. The median progression-free and overall survivals were 7.06 months (95% confidence interval (CI), 3.98 ∼10.14 months) and 9.96 months (95% CI, 6.12∼13.80 months), respectively. Conclusion: Combination chemotherapy with belotecan plus cisplatin is an effective treatment for ED-SCLC with acceptable hematologic and non-hematologic toxicities. (J Lung Cancer 2010;9(1):15 �� 19)