Mulder N H, Sleijfer D T, de Vries E G, Schraffordt Koops H, Willemse P H
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 1990;116(3):301-2. doi: 10.1007/BF01612907.
Twenty-one patients with disseminated malignant melanoma were treated with a combination of carboplatin and cytosine arabinoside. Two complete and three partial remissions occurred. No complete cross-resistance was found with a regimen containing 5-(dimethyltriazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide (DTIC) in two patients. It is suggested that this regimen might be studied further as a second-line treatment for patients who fail on DTIC-containing treatment.