Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Children With Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of different regimens of combination chemotherapy in treating children who have newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group
• Treatments: 6-Mercaptopurine; Asparaginase; Cyclophosphamide; Cytarabine; Daunorubicin; Dexamethasone; Etoposide; Mercaptopurine; Methotrexate; Prednisolone; Thioguanine; Vincristine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Newly diagnosed stage I, II, III, or IV T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma No T-cell large anaplastic, peripheral T-cell lymphomas, or T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia No greater than 25% blasts in the bone marrow

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Under 15 Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy:

Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No prior therapy