Photochemotherapy (PUVA) in the pretumour stage of mycosis fungoides: a report from the Scandinavian Mycosis Fungoides Study Group
Molin, L.; Thomsen, K.; Volden, G.; Groth, O.
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 61(1): 47-51
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5555 PMID: 6164214 Document Number: 175507
Fifty-one patients with mycosis fungoides of pretumour stage were treated with oral 8-MOP and UVA photochemotherapy (PUVA). Complete remission was induced within 2--3 months in 58% of the cases. Twenty-seven patients are still in remission on maintenance therapy 9--53 months after starting treatment. In 9 cases PUVA treatment was stopped due to therapeutic failure and in another 15 cases due to various side effects. Maintenance therapy was given weekly, monthly, or at even longer intervals. Maintenance at long intervals seems preferable.