Mitomycin or cisplatin chemoradiation with or without maintenance chemotherapy for treatment of squamous-cell carcinoma of the anus (ACT II): a randomised, phase 3, open-label, 2 × 2 factorial trial.

BACKGROUND: Chemoradiation became the standard of care for anal cancer after the ACT I trial. However, only two-thirds of patients achieved local control, with 5-year survival of 50%; therefore, better treatments are needed. We investigated whether replacing mitomycin with cisplatin in chemoradiatio...

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Main Authors: James, R, Glynne-Jones, R, Meadows, H, Cunningham, D, Myint, A, Saunders, M, Maughan, T, McDonald, A, Essapen, S, Leslie, M, Falk, S, Wilson, C, Gollins, S, Begum, R, Ledermann, J, Kadalayil, L, Sebag-Montefiore, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013