Experimental hyperthermo-chemotherapy for human gastric carcinoma transplanted in the nude mice

Fujimoto, S.; Shrestha, R.D.; Miyazaki, M.; Endoh, F.; Shimura, T.; Sugasawa, H.; Takahashi, O.; Kawata, S.; Ohta, M.; Kurihara, M.

Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 11(12 Part 2): 2724-2728

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684
PMID: 6439123
Document Number: 229987
Human gastric carcinomas serially xenotransplanted into BALB/c nu/nu mice were treated by hyperthermo-chemotherapy with mitomycin C (MMC). The antitumor efficacy was assessed by both single and double treatments of 25-minute hyperthermia (43.5 degrees C) and/or 2.0 mg/kg of MMC (ip). Tumor weight was estimated using Battelle's Columbus Laboratories protocol. To assess DNA biosynthesis in the tumor cells, the xenotransplanted tumors were excised at prescribed times after these treatments 60 minutes after 3H-thymidine injection (ip), and were examined microscopically. In the group treated twice by hyperthermo-chemotherapy marked growth inhibition and microscopic damage of the tumors were observed, while such features were not recorded in groups treated twice by hyperthermia only and chemotherapy only, nor in groups given single hyperthermo-chemotherapy, or hyperhermia and chemotherapy. In the single-treated groups, DNA biosynthesis was remarkably inhibited by hyperthermo-chemotherapy over 24 hours. The present results suggest that repeated treatments of hyperthermo-chemotherapy with MMC may be effective in the treatment of human gastrointestinal cancer.

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