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It appears from the different clinical trials with endostatin, thalidomide, the synthetic inhibitors of MMPs, and the different anti-VEGFs that angiostatics, though slightly effective in advanced diseases, are more likely indicated in combination with chemotherapy or radiotherapy and as an adjuvant therapy to treat small tumour masses, in particular local minimal residual disease or micrometastasis.
The observations in this study raise the intriguing possibility that selection of head and neck cancer patients for concurrent chemotherapy can be based upon the intratumoral mutational status of M6P/IGF2R . Furthermore, since M6P/IGF2R loss of heterozygosity in squamous cell carcinomas is highly correlated with an elevated plasma TGFβ level [ 39 ] , patient prognosis may potentially be assessed by a simple blood test.
Since the clinical trial demonstrated a significant benefit for patients receiving radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy [ 31 ] , outcome was also analyzed according to whether or not patients received chemotherapy (Figures 2, 3, 4).
Epigenetic gene silencing of the MGMT confers enhanced sensitivity to alkylating agents in cancer [ 24 25 ] . Lack of methylation, on the other hand, associates with high-risk of death [ 25 26 ] . It has been suggested that the high-levels of MGMT proteins contribute to a drug-resistant phenotype [ 27 ] . More than 90% of newly diagnosed GCTs and 70-80% of patients who present metastatic disease are cured with cisplatin-based chemotherapy [ 28 ] . However, 20-30% of the patients with metastatic disease exhibit resistance to the cisplatin curative regimen leading to high mortality in this group.
Rather than use a standard high-dose cytarabine regimen we employed the EMA chemotherapy protocol devised by Archimbaud and colleagues.
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