[Study of effectiveness of 3 schedules of administration of erythropoietic colony-stimulating factors in anemic patients under chemotherapy for solid or hematology malignancy].

Background And Objective: The treatment of chemotherapy associated anemia in patients with cancer has varied greatly in recent years. The objective of this study was to verify whether the most frequently used therapeutic schedules of erythropoietin administration demonstrate equivalent effectiveness.

Patients And Method: Treatments corresponding to 1,103 patients with cancer receiving treatment with erythropoietic colony-stimulating factors from January 2003 to April 2006 were reviewed.