ASHAP for salvage for Hodgkin’s – pro

Patients with Hodgkin’s disease, which is either refractory or recurs after frontline chemotherapy with MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone), ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine), or both regimens, generally have a poor prognosis. High-dose chemotherapy with autologous marrow or stem cell rescue (ABMT) is now a widely used salvage strategy in these patients. Among salvage regimens is ASHAP (ASHAP (Adriamycin = doxorubicin, Solumedrol = methylprednisolone, High-dose Ara-C = cytosine arabinoside, and Platinum = cisplatinum) which appears to provide a similar response rate to that of other chemo regimens. A similar regimen, ESHAP, is more established but there are no comparative trials for most regimens in use for salvage.

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