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Published in final edited form as: Leuk Lymphoma. 2009 Nov;50(11):1773–1784. doi: 10.3109/10428190903186502

Table III.

Treatment and outcome for advanced-stage and relapsed or refractory extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma.

Author (year) N (stage III/IV) Treatment regimen (n) Outcomes
% CR % 5y OS
Advanced-stage
Kwong et al. (1997) [57] 24 (4) CT + RT, stage III/IV 25 (2-month median)
Yong et al. (2001) [43] 37 (11) Overall NR 43 (2y)
CHOP 27 NR
CHOP followed by CMT 46 NR
Kim et al. (2003) [44] 59 (18) CHOP or COPBLAM-V + salvage RT 36 44
Chim et al. (2004) [28] 67 (11) Overall 64 37 (20y)
Up-front RT (7) NR 83 (20y)
Up-front anthracycline-based CT + RT(59) NR 32 (20y)
Li et al. (2004) [31] 77 (21) Overall 43 NR
RT (1) 0 0
CHOP-based regimen(10) 60 30
RT + CT (10) 30 20
Yong et al. (2006) [48] 46 (19) CHOP +RT 65 65
Lee et al. (2006) [45] 26 (10) IMEP (14) ± salvage RT (12), stage III/IV 13 30 (3y)
Pagano et al. (2006) [58] 26 (8) CT (9), CT + RT (14), CT + surgery (2), surgery (1) 23 18
Aviles et al. (2007) [59] 61 (61) CMED +RT 80 65
Guo et al. (2008) [29] 63 (6) Overall stage I–IV NR 70
Overall stage III/IV NR 50
CHOP (6) or CHOP + RT (53) 49 NR
RT + CHOP (4) 100 NR
Li et al. (2008) [40] 91 (20) Overall stage I–IV 79 65
Overall stage III NR 36
Overall stage IV NR 22
RT (13) 77 NR
CT (14) 30 NR
CHOP or CHOP-bleomycin + RT (46) 85 NR
RT + CT (18) 89 NR
Relapsed or refractory disease
Yong et al. (2003) [60] 18 L-asparaginase, vincristine, dexamethasone 56 56
Jaccard et al. (2008) [61] 18 L-asparaginase, methotrexate, and dexamethasone 56 72 (8-month)
Yamaguchi et al. (2008) [62] 6 SMILE 50 NR

Y, year; NR, not reported; CT, chemotherapy; RT, radiotherapy; CMT, combined modality therapy (chemoradiotherapy); CR, complete remission; OS, overall survival; SMILE, steroid dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide; CHOP, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone; CMED, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, etoposide, and dexamethasone; COPBLAM-V, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone, bleomycin, procarbazine; IMEP, ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide, and prednisolone.