Figure 1.

Correlation of therapy response and overall survival. 1A, Kaplan-Meier survival curves for overall survival of patients with remission (R), no change (NC), and progression (P) at time of staging investigations after third therapy cycle. 1B, for evaluation 1, patients with progressive disease (P) were compared with patients having remission and stable disease (R + NC). 1C, for evaluation 2, patients with remission (R) were compared with patients having progressive and stable disease (P + NC).