We randomized 122 premenopausal women to receive tamoxifen or to undergo a surgical oophorectomy. Of 54 evaluable women treated with tamoxifen, 24% had an objective response, as compared with 21% of 53 women having an oophorectomy. The median duration of response for tamoxifen (20 months) was longer than that for surgical oophorectomy (7 months), but this did not achieve statistical significance (P = .056). Overall median survival was 15 months for 58 patients receiving tamoxifen and 25 months for 53 patients undergoing oophorectomy (P = .18). Toxicity was greater in those undergoing oophorectomy, though both treatments were well tolerated. In those premenopausal women for whom hormonal therapy is indicated, tamoxifen is a suitable alternative to surgical oophorectomy.
Thirty-seven patients were studied in a controlled clinical trial to assess the value of Adriamycin and Bleomycin in the treatment of advanced carcinoma of the bladder. The previously reported high response rates for both drugs were not observed in this trial. Administration of Bleomycin was accompanied by a toxicity rate so high that treatment had to be abandoned. Neither Adriamycin nor Bleomycin, therefore, used as single agents, have a role in the chemotherapy of advanced bladder cancer. Other agents should be investigated and assessed by controlled clinical trials that are disease-orientated rather than drug-orientated.
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