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Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NCT00041210

RandomizedTreatment

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 in treating patients who have advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of two different combination chemotherapy regimens in treating patients who have advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Timeline

Start
2001-10
Primary completion
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Bleomycin Unknown
Subject Dacarbazine Small molecule
Subject Doxorubicin Other / unclassified
Subject Etoposide Small molecule Intravenous
Subject Prednisone Other / unclassified Oral
Subject Vinblastine Small molecule
Subject Vincristine Small molecule
Subject mechlorethamine Small molecule

Indications