Standard and Increased-Dose BEACOPP Chemotherapy Compared with COPP-ABVD for Advanced Hodgkin's Disease
Volker Diehl, M.D., Jeremy Franklin, Ph.D., Michael Pfreundschuh, M.D., Bernd Lathan, M.D., Ursula Paulus, Ph.D., Dirk Hasenclever, Ph.D., Hans Tesch, M.D., Richard Herrmann, M.D., Bernd Dörken, M.D., Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink, M.D., Eckhardt Dühmke, M.D., Markus Loeffler, M.D., Ph.D., for the German Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group
Background Faced with unsatisfactory results of treatment foradvanced Hodgkin's disease, we investigated three combinationsof chemotherapy.
Methods From 1993 to 1998, 1201 eligible patients 15 to 65 yearsof age who had newly diagnosed Hodgkin's disease in unfavorablestage IIB or IIIA or stage IIIB or IV were randomly assignedto receive eight cycles of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine,and prednisone alternating with doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine,and dacarbazine (COPP-ABVD); bleomycin, etoposide, doxorubicin,cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone(BEACOPP); or increased-dose BEACOPP, each followed by localradiotherapy when indicated. Enrollment in the COPP-ABVD groupwas stopped in 1996 owing to inferior results.
Results For the final analysis, 1195 of 1201 patients couldbe evaluated: 260 in the COPP-ABVD group, 469 in the BEACOPPgroup, and 466 in the increased-dose BEACOPP group; the medianfollow-up was 72, 54, and 51 months, respectively. The rateof freedom from treatment failure at five years was 69 percentin the COPP-ABVD group, 76 percent in the BEACOPP group, and87 percent in the increased-dose BEACOPP group (P=0.04 for thecomparison of the COPP-ABVD group with the BEACOPP group andP<0.001 for the comparison of the increased-dose BEACOPPgroup with the COPP-ABVD group and with the BEACOPP group),and the five-year rates of overall survival were 83 percent,88 percent, and 91 percent, respectively (P=0.16 for the comparisonof the COPP-ABVD group with the BEACOPP group, P=0.06 for thecomparison of the BEACOPP group with the increased-dose BEACOPPgroup, and P=0.002 for the comparison of the COPP-ABVD groupwith the increased-dose BEACOPP group). Rates of early progressionwere significantly lower with increased-dose BEACOPP than withCOPP-ABVD or standard BEACOPP.
Conclusions Increased-dose BEACOPP resulted in better tumorcontrol and overall survival than did COPP-ABVD.
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From the First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (V.D., J.F., M.P., B.L., U.P., H.T.); the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (D.H., M.L.); the Canton Hospital, Basel, Switzerland (R.H.); Charité Hospital, Berlin, Germany (B.D.); the Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (H.-K.M.-H.); and the Department of Radiotherapy, University of Munich, Munich, Germany (E.D.).
Address reprint requests to Dr. Diehl at the Klinik I für Innere Medizin, Universität Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany, or at v.diehl{at}uni-koeln.de.
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