Enhancement of mammary tumor formation in mice by a cytostatic drug, melphalan

Medina, D.

Cancer Research 37(1): 317-319

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0008-5472
PMID: 830417
Document Number: 110070
Melphalan (L-phenylalanine mustard), a cytostatic drug used in treatment of human breast cancer, was injected into mice bearing preneoplastic hyperplastic alveolar nodule mammary outgrowth line D2. Melphalan, doses of either 2.5 or 5.0 mg/kg, markedly enhanced tumor formation in its mammary nodule outgrowth line. Samples of nodule outgrowths in untreated mice produced 13% tumors by 9 months after transplantation, whereas nodule outgrowths in melphalan-treated mice produced 57 and 85% mammary tumors in the lower and higher dose groups, respectively.

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