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LANCET ONCOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 229-239Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(05)70094-2
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Docetaxel is a semisynthetic taxane, a class of anticancer agents that bind to P tubulin, thereby stabilising microtubules and inducing cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. Docetaxel was first approved for the treatment of anthracycline-refractory metastatic breast cancer in the mid-1990s. Since then, several randomised trials have reported improved time-to-progression, overall survival, or both in metastatic breast cancer treated with single-agent docetaxel or docetaxel-based combination regimens. Data from two adjuvant trials have shown a survival benefit with the addition of docetaxel to standard anthracycline-based regimens in patients with high-risk early breast cancer. In four randomised studies, docetaxel improved survival in locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. Moreover, two trials have shown that docetaxel combined with estramustine or corticosteroids improves survival in metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer. Here, we review major randomised phase III trials with docetaxel in the treatment of solid malignant disease.
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