Sustained remission of choriocarcinoma with cis-platinum, vinblastine, and bleomycin after failure of conventional combination drug therapy.

Combination chemotherapy with methotrexate, actinomycin D. and an alkylating agent (MAC) has become widely used for patients with "high-risk" gestational choriocarcinoma. When such chemotherapy fails to obliterate this disease the prognosis has been uniformly poor. Chemotherapy failure may result from excessive toxicity or tumor resistance. Two patients are presented who failed treatment with MAC. Both have achieved sustained clinical and serum beta subunit-hCG titer remission of choriocarcinoma with the use of the drugs cis-platinum, vinblastine, and bleomycin.