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Table 5 Survival of patients according to first line chemotherapy

From: An effective and well-tolerated strategy in recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer: successive lines of active chemotherapeutic agents

 

Median overall survival

 

Time in months (95% CI)

Cisplatin + taxanes (N = 46)

14.2 (10.8-19.6)

Carboplatin + taxanes (N = 69)

10.5 (7.6-13.1)

Platinum without taxanes (N = 28)

11.2 (8.6-25.3)

Other chemotherapy (N = 48)

5.6 (4.3-8.1)

Clinical trials testing not approved regimens (N = 7)

5.7 (1.7 – NR)

  1. NR = Non Reached.