Table 3.
Patients with CNS relapse (N = 110)a
Treatment arms | Control (no T) |
Experimental (T) |
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Treatment | A or AC |
A–T or AT |
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n | % | n | % | |
CNS relapse | 39 | 100 | 71 | 100 |
Neurological symptoms | 29/32 | 91 | 58/65 | 90 |
Brain metastases | 34/38 | 90 | 61/67 | 91 |
Meningeal carcinomatosis | 6/34 | 18 | 13/64 | 20 |
CNS only disease at death | 8/38 | 21 | 18/68 | 26 |
CNS-R main cause of death | 24/38 | 63 | 37/68 | 54 |
CT scan abnormal due to CNS-R | 30/35 | 86 | 39/59 | 66 |
MRI abnormal due to CNS-R | 10/33 | 30 | 28/60 | 47 |
CSF abnormal due to CNS-R | 1/31 | 3.2 | 6/59 | 8.5 |
Denominators indicate numbers of patients with information available.
CNS-R, central nervous system relapse; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; CT, computed tomography; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; T, docetaxel; A, doxorubicin; AC, doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide.