Combination Chemotherapy Plus Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-03-01

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining peripheral stem cell transplantation with more than one drug regimen may kill more tumor cells. It is not known whether receiving standard combination chemotherapy alone is more effective than receiving multiple combination chemotherapy plus peripheral stem cell transplantation for aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is comparing giving different combination chemotherapy regimens together with peripheral stem cell transplantation to see how well they work in treating patients with newly diagnosed aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

• Phase: Phase 3

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research
• Treatments: Cortisol succinate; Cyclophosphamide; Cytarabine; Doxorubicin; Etoposide; Hydrocortisone; Hydrocortisone 17-butyrate 21-propionate; Hydrocortisone acetate; Hydrocortisone hemisuccinate; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Liposomal doxorubicin; Melphalan; Methotrexate; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Mitoxantrone; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate; Prednisone; Vincristine