Therapy for Relapsed Disease A number of chemotherapy combinations have demonstrated antitumor activity. These include: • MINE (mesna + ifosfamide + Novantrone + etoposide [VP-16]) • CHAD/DHAP (cisplatin + cytosine arabinoside [Ara-C] + dexamethasone) • ESHAP (etoposide [VP-16] + Solumedrol + cytosine arabinoside [Ara-C] + cisplatin) • CEPP (Cytoxan + etoposide [VP-16] + procarbazine + prednisone). • Because secondary chemotherapy has generally failed to provide a cure, many patients under age 55 have been given high-dose chemotherapy alone or with radiation followed by a bone marrow transplant with moderate success (approximately 20 percent long-term disease-free survival). An international clinical trial is testing the benefit of autologous marrow transplant compared with secondary chemotherapy. High-Grade Lymphomas Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Standard Treatment Multi-agent chemotherapy, primarily with Cytoxan , Adriamycin , Oncovin and prednisone, is given together with central nervous system prophylactic therapy. Patients with extensive disease—usually Stage IV on the basis of bone marrow and/or central nervous system involvement—and a high serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) have generally done poorly with conventional