Adjuvant low dose radiation in childhood T cell leukaemia/lymphoma (report from the United Kingdom Childrens' Cancer Study Group--UKCCSG)

Br J Cancer. 1984 Oct;50(4):457-62. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1984.201.

Abstract

From November 1977 to July 1983, 82 children with T leukaemia/lymphoma entered a randomised trial of combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Twenty-five were designated T lymphoma and 57 T leukaemia, 28 having greater than 100 x 10(9)1(-1) blasts in peripheral blood at diagnosis. Twenty-seven patients with mediastinal primaries who were treated on the companion non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) trial were comparable in all respects to the T lymphoma patients and the results of treatment were therefore combined and analysed together. Overall 4-year survival (48-53%) and failure-free survival (FFS) (37-40%) were similar in all groups except the 28 with T leukaemia and WCC greater than 100 X 10(9)1(-1) (20% and 13%). There was a significant advantage in FFS for patients randomised to receive low dose mediastinal radiation, and this was most marked in patients with T lymphoma (66% vs 18%, P = 0.006).

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Leukemia / drug therapy
  • Leukemia / mortality
  • Leukemia / radiotherapy*
  • Lymphoma / drug therapy
  • Lymphoma / mortality
  • Lymphoma / radiotherapy*
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • T-Lymphocytes