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SUBMITTER: Katsumata N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3671094 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Katsumata N N Yoshikawa H H Kobayashi H H Saito T T Kuzuya K K Nakanishi T T Yasugi T T Yaegashi N N Yokota H H Kodama S S Mizunoe T T Hiura M M Kasamatsu T T Shibata T T Kamura T T
British journal of cancer 20130502 10
<h4>Background</h4>A phase III trial was conducted to determine whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) before radical surgery (RS) improves overall survival.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients with stage IB2, IIA2, or IIB squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix were randomly assigned to receive either BOMP (bleomycin 7 mg days 1-5, vincristine 0.7 mg m(-2) day 5, mitomycin 7 mg m(-2) day 5, cisplatin 14 mg m(-2) days 1-5, every 3 weeks for 2 to 4 cycles) plus RS (NACT group) or RS alone (RS group). ...[more]