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[Clinical evaluation of various antineoplastic agents combined with urokinase--a comparison between urokinase from tissue culture (TCUK) and urine-derived urokinase (UUK)]. 1982

M Yamamoto

The effect of fibrinolytic agents, Tissue Culture Urokinase (TCUK) and Urinary Urokinase (UUK), was investigated in a total of 146 patients with gastric cancer, pulmonary cancer or breast cancer who received various anti-cancer agents, mainly MMC, in combination with the fibrinolytic agents. Assessments were made according to the Koyama-Saito criteria. In order to maintain impartiality of this comparative trial, the drugs were randomly administered to the patients by a card system. The patients who died during the study were excluded from the analysis and the patients with colorectal cancer were also excluded because this disease was not included in the study protocol. As a result, 51 patients given TCUK and 50 patients given UUK (101 in total) were subjected to analyse. The response rate (CR + PR/No. of admitted patients) was 15.6% (8/51) for the TCUK group and 10.0% (5/50) for the UUK group respectively. The patients with measurable lesions in the TCUK group showed a response rate of 25.9% (7/27) and those in the UUK group, 14.3% (4/28). Side effects were observed in 52.1% of patients in the TCUK group and 47.9% in the UUK group. However, these symptoms were related to the anti-cancer agents. Neither a tendency to hemorrhage nor allergic symptoms occurred in association with the two fibrinolytic agents, TCUK and UUK. to UUK in terms of an activity to enhance the chemotherapeutic effect of anti-cancer agents and that combination use of TCUK and anti-cancer agents seems to be useful.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008175	Lung Neoplasms	Tumors or cancer of the LUNG.	Cancer of Lung,Lung Cancer,Pulmonary Cancer,Pulmonary Neoplasms,Cancer of the Lung,Neoplasms, Lung,Neoplasms, Pulmonary,Cancer, Lung,Cancer, Pulmonary,Cancers, Lung,Cancers, Pulmonary,Lung Cancers,Lung Neoplasm,Neoplasm, Lung,Neoplasm, Pulmonary,Pulmonary Cancers,Pulmonary Neoplasm
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D008937	Mitomycins	A group of methylazirinopyrroloindolediones obtained from certain Streptomyces strains. They are very toxic antibiotics used as ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS in some solid tumors. PORFIROMYCIN and MITOMYCIN are the most useful members of the group.
D009369	Neoplasms	New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms.	Benign Neoplasm,Cancer,Malignant Neoplasm,Tumor,Tumors,Benign Neoplasms,Malignancy,Malignant Neoplasms,Neoplasia,Neoplasm,Neoplasms, Benign,Cancers,Malignancies,Neoplasias,Neoplasm, Benign,Neoplasm, Malignant,Neoplasms, Malignant
D010450	Endopeptidases	A subclass of PEPTIDE HYDROLASES that catalyze the internal cleavage of PEPTIDES or PROTEINS.	Endopeptidase,Peptide Peptidohydrolases
D011897	Random Allocation	A process involving chance used in therapeutic trials or other research endeavor for allocating experimental subjects, human or animal, between treatment and control groups, or among treatment groups. It may also apply to experiments on inanimate objects.	Randomization,Allocation, Random
D001943	Breast Neoplasms	Tumors or cancer of the human BREAST.	Breast Cancer,Breast Tumors,Cancer of Breast,Breast Carcinoma,Cancer of the Breast,Human Mammary Carcinoma,Malignant Neoplasm of Breast,Malignant Tumor of Breast,Mammary Cancer,Mammary Carcinoma, Human,Mammary Neoplasm, Human,Mammary Neoplasms, Human,Neoplasms, Breast,Tumors, Breast,Breast Carcinomas,Breast Malignant Neoplasm,Breast Malignant Neoplasms,Breast Malignant Tumor,Breast Malignant Tumors,Breast Neoplasm,Breast Tumor,Cancer, Breast,Cancer, Mammary,Cancers, Mammary,Carcinoma, Breast,Carcinoma, Human Mammary,Carcinomas, Breast,Carcinomas, Human Mammary,Human Mammary Carcinomas,Human Mammary Neoplasm,Human Mammary Neoplasms,Mammary Cancers,Mammary Carcinomas, Human,Neoplasm, Breast,Neoplasm, Human Mammary,Neoplasms, Human Mammary,Tumor, Breast
D002986	Clinical Trials as Topic	Works about pre-planned studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects. This concept includes clinical trials conducted both in the U.S. and in other countries.	Clinical Trial as Topic
D005260	Female		Females