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Appendix 6<br />

Study details and Participant details Intervention details Results Conclusion and<br />

design comments<br />

Assessment at baseline and 1 subsequent visit f<strong>or</strong> 111<br />

patients:<br />

Decrease I: n (%) C: n (%)<br />

≥ 25% 28 (49) 25 (46)<br />

≥ 50% 19 (33) 12 (22)<br />

≥ 75% 13 (23) 5 (9)<br />

p = 0.11.<br />

Sensitivity analysis effect <strong>of</strong> PSA response on palliative<br />

response (from Dowling et al. 45 ):<br />

PSA response Palliative No palliative<br />

response response<br />

I C I C<br />

≥ 50% 18 1 9 8<br />

Stable 9 9 17 14<br />

Primary non-responder 2 6 13 20<br />

Unevaluable 1 1 11 22<br />

p = 0.001.<br />

Outcome 5: Adverse events<br />

Assessed by WHO criteria<br />

Minimal toxicity attributable to <strong>prednisone</strong>. Toxicity<br />

attributable to mitoxantrone, including patients crossed over<br />

to this <strong>treatment</strong> (total = 130 patients; 796 courses):<br />

Hematological toxicity:<br />

Granulocyte nadir × 10 9 /l:<br />

0.5–1.0: 171 courses (32%)<br />

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