salvage chemotherapy

sal·vage che·mo·ther·a·py

use of chemotherapy in a patient with recurrence of a malignancy following initial treatment, in hope of a cure or prolongation of life.

Synonym(s): salvage therapy (1)

salvage chemotherapy

A treatment modality consisting of high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation for cancer patients who have “failed” one or more protocols. For instance, in Hodgkin lymphoma, 24% of those with long initial remissions survive > 11 years, and thus require further (salvage) therapy (e.g., ABVD—doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine). Salvage regimens include high-dose chemotherapy (3–10-fold greater than conventional dosage), and may be combined with autologous bone marrow, or peripheral stem cell transplantation. Salvage chemotherapy is problematic as the patients may already be in poor condition, e.g., with severe clinical deterioration; large, bulky, aggressive tumour masses; and multi-drug resistances. Salvage chemotherapy is used in NHL, small cell carcinoma, and Hodgkin lymphoma.

salvage chemotherapy

Oncology A treatment modality consisting of high-dose chemotherapy and BMT, for cancer Pts who have 'failed' one or more protocols. See Heroic therapy.

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CLAG-M is a salvage chemotherapy regimen consisting of cladribine, cytarabine, filgrastim and mitoxantrone that has become the standard of care at many institutions across the U.

Actinium announces FDA clearance for Actimab-A/CLAG-M Phase 1 combo trial

In the trial, 33 percent fewer patients treated in the ADCETRIS containing regimen required subsequent salvage chemotherapy or high dose chemotherapy and transplant compared to the patients treated with ABVD.

United Kingdom : Takeda and Seattle Genetics to Present Positive Data from Phase 3 ECHELON-1 Clinical Trial Evaluating ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) in Frontline Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma

DelMar has announced plans to advance VAL-083 into a controlled Phase 3 Study in Temozolomide-Avastin Recurrent GBM to evaluate overall survival versus salvage chemotherapy for GBM patients who have previously failed both temozolomide and bevacizumab and for whom there exists no approved treatment option.

DelMar Formalises Collaboration with PRA Health Sciences for Phase 3 Trial of VAL-083 in Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme

These multicenter, open label trials evaluated patients with cHL who failed ASCT and BV, who were ineligible for ASCT because they were unable to achieve a complete or partial remission after salvage chemotherapy and failed BV, or who failed ASCT and did not receive BV.

Merck's KEYTRUDA gains European Medicines Agency approval for treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma

All of our patients received CHOP-based chemotherapy with or without rituximab as the first-line treatment; intensified salvage chemotherapy was given to three patients with a PR or disease progression, which resulted in stable disease in two of three patients.

Clinical Analysis of Five Cases of AIDS-related Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Subsequently, intraperitoneal chemotherapy with paclitaxel was administered followed by salvage chemotherapy with paclitaxel every 21 days.

Treatment of Krukenberg tumor with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy: A report of three cases

Incidence of late-relapse germ cell tumour and outcome to salvage chemotherapy.

28-year late spermatic cord relapse of a testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumour, managed robotically

Because there is no effective second-line or salvage chemotherapy, recurrent disease is associated with a very poor prognosis.

Rare primary fallopian tube carcinoma; a gynaecologist's dilemma

In the AETHERA trial, a patient was considered for brentuximab consolidation therapy if they met at least one of the following risk factors for progression after ASCT: primary refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma; relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma with an initial remission duration of less than 12 months; or extranodal involvement at the start of pretransplantation salvage chemotherapy [2].

Severe Acute Pulmonary Toxicity Associated with Brentuximab in a Patient with Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Salvage chemotherapy and testicular radiation led to complete remission when he was 11 years old.

Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of Urinary Bladder Occurring as a Second Primary Malignancy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Autologous bone marrow transplantation as compared with salvage chemotherapy in relapses of chemotherapy-sensitive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Ifosfamide, Cisplatin or Carboplatin, and Etoposide (ICE)-based Chemotherapy for Mobilization of Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cells in Patients with Lymphomas

When occurring, platinum-based combination salvage chemotherapy may still achieve long-term remissions in about a half of relapsed disease patients [3, 7].