Table 3 A comparison of outcomes of this study with other prospective clinical trials

From: Metronomic chemotherapy with daily, oral etoposide plus bevacizumab for recurrent malignant glioma: a phase II study

Number of patients

RR (%)

Median PFS (weeks)

PFS-6 (%)

Median OS (weeks)

Reference

Regimen

Grade 3

 32

24

24 (16–33)

41 (24,57)

63.1 (36–∞)

Current study

BV + etoposide

 33

61

30 (21–60)

55 (36–70)

65 (32–99)

Desjardins et al (2008)

BV + CPT-11

GBM

 27

23

18 (13–40)

44.4 (26–62)

46.4 (25–70)

Current study

BV + etoposide

 35

57

24 (18–36)

46 (32–66)

42 (35–60)

Vredenburgh et al (2007a, 2007b)

7

 85

28

17 (12–23)

43 (30–56)

36.8 (33–43)

Friedman et al (2009)

BV monotherapy

 82

38

22 (18–25)

50 (37–64)

34.8 (31–44)

Friedman et al (2009)

BV + CPT-11

 48

35

16 (12–26)

29 (18–48)

31 (21–54)

Kreisl et al (2009)

BV monotherapy

  1. Abbreviations: BV= bevacizumab; GBM=glioblastoma; OS=overall survival; PFS=progression-free survival; PFS-6=progression-free survival at 6 months.
  2. Numbers in parentheses refer to available 95% confidence intervals.