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Thalidomide was administered to 83 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome MDS ; , starting at 100 mg by mouth daily and increasing to 400 mg as tolerated. Thirtytwo patients stopped therapy before 12 weeks minimum period for response evaluation ; , and 51 completed 12 weeks of therapy. International Working Group response criteria for MDS were used to evaluate responses. Intent-to-treat ITT ; analysis classified all off-study patients as nonresponders. Off-study patients belonged to a higher risk category P .002 ; and had a.
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Chronic HF from August 2003 to December 2004 were enrolled in this study. Male 34, female 16, age 65: : t 9 range from 24 to 78 ; The inclusion criteriaes were a history of HF more than 2 years and left ventricular ejection fraction L VEF ; less than 40 %. The exclusion criteriaes were severe renal dysfunction, cancer and died during hospitalision. All the patients received intravenous diuretics and vasoactive agent during hospitalision. The discharged from hospital when symptoms were relief and stabilization. We followed up once every month during the first three months and then once every quarter. The total follow-up time was 12 : : range from 2 to 24 ; months. They were divided into two groups according to the results of followup. 2.2 Measurement of circulating BNP level.
Introduction. The advent of thalidomide thal ; has radically changed multiple myeloma MM ; patients' pts ; outcome. It has proven to be effective at low doses either in relapsed refractory disease or at onset, better if in combination with steroids. However, few studies have provided long term results of thal therapy. Aim of this retrospective multicenter study was to evaluate long term efficacy and toxicity in 303 MM pts treated with thal alone or with steroids. Methods. A total of 303 MM pts median age: 63 years ; diagnosed in four Italian Centers were treated with thal with without steroids 231 72 ; after a median of one previous line of therapy 1-6 ; including high dose Melphalan in 126 pts. Responses were categorized as Complete Response CR ; negative immunofixation, 5% bone marrow plasma cells ; , Very Good Partial Response VGPR ; positive immunofixation, decrease in the M-protein 90% ; , Partial Response PR ; decrease in the M-protein 50% ; , Stable Disease SD ; decrease in the M-protein 25-49% ; , No Response NR ; decrease in the M-protein 25% ; . Median follow up was 18.8 months 1-85 ; . Results. Thal was administered at a median daily dose of 100 mg 50-600 ; for a median period of 12.6 months mo ; . The best response, obtained after a median of 5.3 mo 0.3-37 ; since the start of thal was assessed in 291 pts: CR + VGPR: 35 12% ; , PR: 130 45% ; , SD 43 15% ; , NR 83 28% ; . Median time to progression was 14 mo with significant differences according to type of response p 0.000 ; : 23 mo VGPR, 15 mo in PR, 12 mo in SD and 6 mo in group. Progression Free Survival was 20.6 mo with statistical difference in response subgroups p 0.000 ; : 35 mo VGPR, 21 mo in PR, 19 mo in SD and 8 mo in NR. Interestingly, comparison between SD and PR curves did not show any significant difference p 0.3 ; . Overall survival was 26.2 mo with statistical difference in response subgroups p 0.000 ; : 63 mo VGPR, 31.5 mo in PR, 25 mo in SD and 10 mo in group. Concerning toxicity the most clinically relevant complications were: neuropathy in 119 pts 40% ; , constipation in 80 pts 26% ; , and thromboembolic events TVP or pulmonary oedema ; in 21 pts 7% ; . At the time of analysis, thal was reduced in 81 pts 36.5% ; and discontinuated in 128 pts 66.6% ; because of disease progression and of toxicity in 70% and 30% of cases respectively. Conclusions. Thal produces high response rate in relapsed refractory MM pts with better results in pts with responses of good quality. However, even those pts achieving a SD have a long period of remission 19 mo ; , not significantly different from that of pts obtaining a PR. Neurotoxicity remains the main complication of the treatment.
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Received January 10, 2006. Accepted June 23, 2006. Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Constantine S. Mitsiades, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medical Oncology, DanaFarber Cancer Institute, Mayer Building, Room M555, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. E-mail: Constantine Mitsiades dfci. harvard . Disclosure Summary: C.S.M. has received honoraria from Novartis Pharma for participation as consultant in scientific advisory meetings. All other authors have nothing to declare and thalomid.
PAIN, FUNCTION, AND QUALITY OF LIFE SCORING SYSTEMS Scoring systems for pain, function, and quality of life are fraught with complications with respect to design, weighting, reproducibility, validity, reliability, correlations, bias, and accuracy. This is evidenced by the fact that there are at least 13 functional assessment scoring systems for the shoulder joint alone, which are currently used in human medicine. This does not include the various quality of life scoring systems or other assessment techniques. Two recent review articles1, 2 summarize many of these systems, as well as their relative advantages and disadvantages, and provide some guidelines for development of scoring systems for pain, function, and quality of life. It is the intent of this presentation to begin to address development of a good system for comprehensive assessment of the shoulder joint of veterinary patients. The system used for veterinary patients should include assessments of pain, stability, function, and quality of life. The issues that need to be addressed when developing this system should include source of input, weighting, pre-testing, review, avoiding "double barreled" questions, accuracy, repeatability, validity, and correlations to other measures. OTHER POTENTIAL DATA Synovial fluid analysis Force plate analysis Kinematic analysis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Computed Tomography REFERENCES.
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Synopsis The Lancet features a seminar on multiple myeloma under the following headings: Incidence Biology of myeloma Clinicopathological features of patients with myeloma Concept of complete remission Initial or induction chemotherapy for new patients High-dose chemotherapy Biological-immunological treatments Bisphosphonates and kyphoplasty Thalidomide and its analogues Other new drugs Support groups The article notes "treatment for this condition has changed beyond recognition in the past decade, and now includes state of the art supportive treatment and infusional chemotherapy courses, followed for younger patients by high-dose melphalan and an autologous transplant. Patients younger than 70 years can now expect a doubling of median survival to 5 years, a 20% chance of surviving longer than 10 years, and a 50% chance of attaining complete morphological and biochemical remission. Bisphosphonate control of bone disease is essential. Exploitation of the understanding of the biology of myeloma has led to the development of biological treatments, such as thalidomide, CC-5013, and bortezomib, which target the myeloma cell and the bone-marrow microenvironment, which plays a crucial part in the disease's pathogenesis. These treatments will hold the key to future success.
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Muschel et al. 13 ; , Bradley et al. 16 ; found that NIH3T3 cells transformed with elevated levels of the proto-oncogene were metastatic. A.H.Greenberg personal communication ; probably has provided the resolution of these reports in that moderate levels of P21 lead to transformation but not metastasis while higher levels yield metastatic cells. Muschel et al. were probably using cells with lower levels than those used by Bradley et al. The experiments of Egan et al. 14 ; further confirm the effect of ray" on metastasis by showing that the extent of metastatic potential is proportional to the level of ray" in both spontaneous and experimental metastasis assays. In a first set of experiments, metastatic potential was found to correlate with the level of ray" expression in NIH3T3 cells transformed with the ray" from the bladder carcinoma. Furthermore, those rare metastatic variants isolated from the cells with barely detectable ray" were found to have high levels of ray" expression. At the DNA level, these cells were found to have undergone rearrangement or amplification of the introduced ray" oncogene. Thus, the level of ras expression seemed to correlate directly with metastatic potential. Furthermore, the threshold level of ray" required for tumorigenicity seems to be less than that for metastasis. In a second set of experiments, they introduced a ras11 gene linked to a steroid-responsive promoter from the mouse mammary tumor virus. The number of metastases increased 2-fold after pretreatment with dexamethasone, further confirming the dose dependence of metastasis upon oncogene expression. Bondy et al. 18 ; have demonstrated the ability of ras11transformed cells to behave aggressively in another assay of metastasis, that using the chicken chorioallantoic membrane. In this assay, cells are injected into the veins of that membrane and metastasis is measured by looking for colonies within the liver of the chicken embryo. NIH3T3 cells transformed by ray" are positive in this assay. Sore-transformed cells are also positive in this study. Greig et al. 19 ; also studied the effect of the ray" oncogene upon metastatic potential. They obtained a clone of NM3T3 cells which had been transfected with the ray" oncogene, and found these cells to be metastatic in nude mice. Unlike other workers, they also found that native NTH3T3 cells were positive in metastasis assays, although in some cases only after 6 months. As they point out, and as was meticulously described by Todaro and Green when they described the development of this type of cell line, the method of passaging these cells greatly influences the conversion of NIH3T3 cells to tumorigenic cells. The methods used in culturing these cells might account for the differences between the results of Greig et al. and those of other groups cited here see also Van Roy et al. 20 ; ]. However, this work points out the difficulty of extrapolating from results in NIH3T3 cells to other cells. Because of their ready susceptibility to transformation, their aneuploidy and other unique features, results obtained in NIH3T3 cells may not be generalizable to other cell types. Thus, it was important to ascertain the effect of the ray" oncogene on metastasis in other cell types. Effect of ras1 * on diploid cells The ray oncogene also induces metastatic behavior in transformed primary fibroblasts. Muschel etal. 13 ; tested experimental and spontaneous metastasis by several lines of diploid rodent primary cells which had been transformed by Spandidos and Wilkie 21 ; using the ray" gene linked to an enhancer. All four lines tested were metastatic including transformed rat skin cells, rat muscle cells and Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts. Pozzatti et al. 22 ; extended this work by examining a series of rat embryo cells and thiamin.
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By the physician expert groups R ; . Case-by-case application has to be made for the same reason as in BC hence L1 ; and at present it is funded predominantly by the pharmaceutical manufacturer's assistance program L4 ; . Hence, the X R L1 descriptor. In Ontario, guidelines have been written for use of adjuvant oxaliplatin R ; and it is provided to patients on a case-by-case basis L1 ; . However, some centres may cover the cost of the drug and its administration while others do not L3 designation indicating variable institutional practices for funding patients ; . In some centres patients pay L4 designation ; for the full cost of the drug or the residual not covered by the hospital global budget. Other centres charge for the drug but cover residual costs through hospital global budgets L4 ; . Hence, the R L1 L3 descriptor. number and names of specific drugs for which funding was withdrawn in 2006 are shown in column 8. As shown in Table 2 the four western provinces have approved and funded more drugs than provinces east of the Manitoba border, except for Quebec. However, the number of drugs accessed in Quebec must be regarded with some circumspection, given the variability from hospital to hospital in that province. For some specialized drugs or treatments, such as Bexxar and Zevalin, it may be appropriate to limit availability to specialized centres with sufficient expertise in this case, handling radioactive drugs ; and volume to administer the treatment safely. Table 3 displays the impact on access to cancer drugs arising from four broad categories of limited access. Ontario has more restrictions than any other province column 3 ; while the four western provinces have the fewest column 4 ; . PEI also has few restrictions in this grouping, because more drugs are not funded at all. Of special interest is the use of L4 private pay across the provinces. As noted in last year's Report Card, the eastern provinces rely more heavily than other provinces on compassionate programs offered by manufacturers. Although the same programs exist at least to some extent in the rest of the country, the extensive use of the private pay option in Ontario 14 of the 24 studied drugs ; indicates a larger contribution by insurers and individual patients. Table 4 summarizes the status of private pay options for each drug within each province. Though it is an oral drug, thalidomide is included within the parenteral list because it does not have Health Canada approval and is not available through retail pharmacies. In the last CACC Report Card, the only province with significant self pay options for parenteral drugs was Alberta. This Report Card documents an increasing proportion of the studied drugs being funded by self pay or third parties and administered within publicly funded cancer centres category A ; or private infusion clinics category B ; . Provis has been operating one such private clinic in Toronto since 2005 and Bayshore is opening more than.
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1. Thom T, Haase N, Rosamond W; American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2006 Update. A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Circulation. 2006; 113: e85-e151. 2. Wiviott SD, Morrow DA, Frederick PD, Antman EM, Braunwald E; National Registry of Myocardial Infarction. Application of the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction risk index in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: evaluation of patients in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction. J Coll Cardiol. 2006; 47 8 ; : 1553-1558. Epub 2006 Mar 29. 3. AHA; ACC; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Smith SC Jr, Allen J, Blair SN, et al. AHA ACC guidelines for secondary prevention for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2006 update endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. J Coll Cardiol. 2006; 47 10 ; : 2130-2139 and thiotepa
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B085 Salvage Therapy with DT-PACE for Multiple Myeloma Patients Prior to Mini-Allogeneic Transplantation S Larsen * , J Gibson, D Joshua Institute of Haematology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW Aim DT-PACE dexamethasone, thalidomide, cisplatin, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide and etoposide ; has previously been reported to be beneficial in patients with relapsed refractory multiple myeloma. We now report on the therapeutic benefit of DT-PACE as a useful salvage regimen prior to mini-allogeneic transplantation MAT ; . Methods Five patients with advanced multiple myeloma were salvaged with 2 courses of DT-PACE prior to undergoing MAT. All patients had previously received 6 courses of combination chemotherapy including PCAB, PCM and VAD ; , three patients had previously undertaken a single autologous transplant, 1 patient had undertaken 2 autologous transplants, and the 5th patient had previously undertaken an allogeneic transplant 9 years prior. DT-PACE consists of dexamethasone 40 mg d x 4 ; and thalidomide 400 mg d ; with a 4-day, continuous infusion of cisplatin 10 mg m2 d ; , cyclophosphamide 400 mg m2 d ; , doxorubicin 10 mg m2 d ; , and etoposide 40 mg m2 d ; . There was a 4-week interval between courses. Conditioning comprised of fludarabine 30mg m2 on days 7 to 3 and melphalan 140mg m2 on day 2. GVHD prophylaxis consisted of cyclosporin and ganciclovir was given for CMV prophylaxis. Results After two courses of DT-PACE, the serum paraprotein decreased from pretreatment levels of 2.0, 5.8, 9.1 and 9.6g L to undetectable levels in 4 patients patient 5 had light chain disease ; . Pretreatment plasma cell concentrations in bone marrow of 90%, 80%, 90%, and 95% decreased to 5%, 3%, 15%, and 45% respectively, after DT-PACE and to 5% in all patients after MAT. Bence-Jones protein levels fell from pretreatment levels of 0.01, 0.24, 2.82, 0 and 0.21 g day to undetectable levels in four patients and 0.14g day in patient 5 after DT-PACE. This regimen was very well tolerated. The and thiothixene.
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Kidney pool, further improvements in graft function and longterm graft survival in the recipient population are probably going to require a new approach to immunosuppression. For the first time since calcineurin inhibitors became available, new calcineurin inhibitorfree regimens are being explored. Because withdrawal or avoidance of calcineurin inhibitors has been associated with an 8 to 29% increase in GFR, calcineurin-free regimens have the promise of significantly improving graft survival 1116 ; . So far in early trials with early withdrawal or complete avoidance of calcineurin inhibitors, AR rates similar to those seen with calcineurin inhibitors have been achieved 1316 ; . However, if AR rates are significantly higher with calcineurin-free regimens, then the detrimental effect of AR could negate the benefit of reduced renal toxicity with this approach to immunosuppression. The improvement in graft function associated with calcineurin avoidance may be especially important for patients who receive older donor kidneys, for which the best achievable GFR may be only 50 ml min per 1.73 m2 and thalidomide.
Purpose To describe the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features and risk factors for osteonecrosis of the jaw ONJ ; in multiple myeloma MM ; patients. Patients and Methods A retrospective review of 90 MM patients who had dental assessments, including 22 patients with ONJ. There were 62 men; the median age was 61 years in ONJ patients and 58 years among the rest. Prior MM therapy included thalidomide n 67 ; and stem-cell transplantation n 72 ; . Bisphosphonate therapy included zoledronate n 34 ; or pamidronate n 17 ; and pamidronate followed by zoledronate n 33 ; . Twenty-seven patients had recent dental extraction, including 12 patients in the ONJ group. Median time from MM diagnosis to ONJ was 8.4 years for the whole group. Results Patients usually presented with pain. ONJ occurred posterior to the cuspids n 20 ; mostly in the mandible. Debridement and sequestrectomy with primary closure were performed in 14 patients; of these, four patients had major infections and four patients had recurrent ONJ. Bone histology revealed necrosis and osteomyelitis. Microbiology showed actinomycetes n 7 ; and mixed bacteria n 9 ; . More than a third of ONJ patients also suffered from long bone fractures n 4 ; and or avascular necrosis of the hip n 4 ; . The variables predictive of developing ONJ were dental extraction P .009 ; , treatment with pamidronate zoledronate P .009 ; , longer follow-up time P .03 ; , and older age at diagnosis of MM P .006 ; . Conclusion ONJ appears to be time-dependent with higher risk after long-term use of bisphosphonates in older MM patients often after dental extractions. No satisfactory therapy is currently available. Trials addressing the benefits risks of continuing bisphosphonate therapy are needed. J Clin Oncol 24: 945-952. 2006 by American Society of Clinical Oncology and thorazine.
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Thalidomide in combination with melphalan and prednisone appears to be a promising approach for newly diagnosed symptomatic myeloma, particularly in older patients, with response rates similar to that achieved with ASCT. ! The combination of thalidomide and dexamethasone might provide an oral alternative to VAD, particularly for candidates for ASCT. ! Safety results of a pilot study of thalidomide as maintenance therapy following high-dose therapy and ASCT sugest that thalidomide doses of up to 200 mg day are tolerable.
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