METHOD FOR TREATING CHRONIC LYMPHOLEUKOSIS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, oncohematology.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with treating elderly patients with chronic lympholeukosis accompanied with cardiovascular failure. The method deals with applying chemopreparations and cytoprotector. Moreover, 1 wk before the onset of chemotherapeutic therapy one should prescribe preductal at the dosage of 105 mg daily. At this background one should sample blood out of elbow vein at the volume of 200 ml into a vial with glugicir to centrifuge it, isolate plasma, divide into two portions, add into the 1^st vial - cyclophosphan 600-800 mg/sq. m, vincristin 1.4 mg/sq. m, into the 2^nd vial - adriamycin 50 mg/sq. m to be incubated for 30 min at 37 C and intravenously injected by drops for patients. Simultaneously, the intake of prednisolone should be prescribed at the dosage of 60 mg/sq. m since the 1^st d and during the next 5 d and preductal at the dosage of 105 mg daily during a week, and then 2 wk more at the dosage of 60 mg daily. All the procedures should be repeated in above-mentioned sequence 4-6 times. The method enables to decrease toxic manifestations of chemotherapy while applying adequate dosages of cytostatics, anthracycline antibiotics, among them, at no great manifestations of their toxicity due to preductal's cardioprotective action.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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