Combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer with fluorouracil, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, and methotrexate
1984
Twenty-nine patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with fluorouracil, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide (FAC), and methotrexate (MTX), with or without leukovorin rescue. Of 24 evaluable patients, one achieved a complete remission and 17 had partial responses. The overall objective response rate was 75%. The median survival from initiation of chemotherapy for the responding patients was 18 months. Four patients (17%) with stable disease had a median survival of 25 months. The addition of MTX to FAC chemotherapy did not improve the therapeutic efficacy of this combination; it did, however, increase the overall toxicity, especially the infectious complications when compared to FAC alone.
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