小鼠γ-干扰素基因修饰瘤苗的抗肿瘤研究

本实验用RT-PCR方法得到小鼠γ-干扰素(mIFN-γ)全长cDNA,通过逆转录病毒载体将其导入小鼠肝癌细胞株,比较研究了该株细胞在mIFN-γ基因修饰前后致瘤性的变化,并制备了瘤苗,对其分泌干扰素的能力及对荷瘤小鼠的治疗作用作了进一步的研究,发现经过mIFN-γ基因修饰后,肿瘤细胞的致瘤性明显降低且瘤苗对荷瘤小鼠有明显的治疗作用,这为进一步开展细胞因子基因治疗工作打下一定基础。     

99m Tc-HL91 "hot spot" imaging of mice bearing human carcinoma by gamma camera and the effects of tumor necrosis on imaging

Objective To evaluate the hypoxia-avid agent ^99m Tc-HL91 (^99m Tc labeled 4, 9-diaza-3, 3, 10, 10-tetramethyldodecan-2, 11-dione dioxime) as the tracer of tumor "hot spot" imaging and the influence of tumor necrosis on the image.
Methods After injection of ^99m Tc-HL91, 6 nude mice bearing human breast cancer MCF-7 and 18 nude mice bearing human pancreatic adenocarcinoma were subjected to gamma camera imaging, postmortem analysis, and autoradiography and imaging of tumor sections.
Results The image of tumor was identified 1 hour after injection of ^99m Tc-HL91.Images demonstrated gradually increased ^99m Tc-HL91 uptake in the tumor 1-12 hours after injection (P<0.05-0.001).Six hours after injection, the radioactivity ratios of tumor to thorax and tumor to head were higher than 2.1.Six hours after injection, the radioactivity ratios of tumor to brain, muscle, blood, heart, lung and kidney in pancreatic adenocarcinoma bearing nude mice were 101.0±114.7, 30.0±30.3, 19.9±21.9, 14.4±15.1, 3.71±2.41 and 0.46±0.26, respectively, and the radioactivity ratios in breast cancer MCF-7 bearing nude mice were close to these figures.The radioactivity of non-necrotic tumor was 3.77 times that of necrotic tumor.However, the radioactivity ratios of tumor to liver, intestine and stomach were lower than 1.3. Autoradiographs and images of tumor sections showed that the radioactivity was higher in the region of solid tumor than in the necrotic region.
Conclusion ^99m Tc-HL91 via gamma camera positively identifies regional tumor in nude mice bearing human cancer.^99m Tc-HL91 retention is lower in necrotic tumor than in non-necrotic tumor.The low radioactivity ratio of tumor to abdominal organs limits the application of ^99m Tc-HL 91 in detecting abdominal tumors.      

原发性气管肿瘤的外科治疗

 自1991年6月至1996年11月, 我们对原发性气管肿瘤23例进行手术治疗, 其中良性肿瘤2例, 恶性肿瘤21例, 施行气管节段切除11例, 侧壁切除6例, 气管腔内肿瘤刮除加电灼术6例。 术后无发生气管瘘、无手术死亡。 术后1、3、5年生存率分别是86％、53％和21％。 作者认为应根据气管肿瘤的病理性质, 病变范围和外侵程度, 酌情使用气管节段切除、侧壁切除和肿瘤刮除加电灼术。     

骨巨细胞瘤AgNOR和DNA的定量研究

 采用AgNOR染色和流式细胞术分别对50例和30例骨巨细胞瘤（GCT）进行研究。AgNOR计数Ⅰ级7．49±1．57，Ⅱ级9．47±1．08，Ⅲ级10．67±0．37。Ⅰ级与Ⅱ级，Ⅱ级与Ⅲ级之间皆有显著性差异，Ⅱ级与Ⅲ级之间无显著性差异。FCM分析结果表明，DNA异倍体率在各级GCT之间有显著差异，各级GCT的S期百分比无显著性差异。整倍体和异倍体AgNOR计数有显著性差异。GCT复发浸润与倍体水平及AgNOR计数有关。     

Radiation therapy in the management of desmoid tumors

Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of patients with extra-mesenteric desmoid tumors treated with radiation therapy, with or without surgery.

Methods and Materials: The outcome for 75 patients receiving radiation for desmoid tumor with or without complete gross resection between 1965 and 1994 was retrospectively reviewed utilizing univariate and multivariate statistical methods.

Results: With a median follow-up of 7.5 years, the overall freedom from relapse was 78% and 75% at 5 and 10 years, respectively. Of the total, 23 patients received radiation for gross disease because it was not resectable. Of these 23 patients, 7 sustained local recurrence, yielding a 31% actuarial relapse rate at 5 years. Radiation dose was the only significant determinant of disease control in this group. A dose of 50 Gy was associated with a 60% relapse rate, whereas higher doses yielded a 23% relapse rate (p < 0.05). The other 52 patients received radiation in conjunction with gross total resection of tumor. The 5- and 10-year relapse rates were 18% and 23%, respectively. No factor correlated significantly with disease outcome. There was no evidence that radiation doses exceeding 50 Gy improved outcome. Positive resection margins were not significantly deleterious in this group of irradiated patients. For all 75 patients, there was no evidence that radiation margins exceeding 5 cm beyond the tumor or surgical field improved local-regional control. Ultimately, 72 of the 75 patients were rendered disease-free, but 3 required extensive surgery (amputation, hemipelvectomy) to achieve this status. Significant radiation complications were seen in 13 patients. Radiation dose correlated with the incidence of complications. Doses of 56 Gy or less produced a 5% 15-year complication rate, compared to a 30% incidence with higher doses (p < 0.05).

Conclusions: Radiation is an effective modality for desmoid tumors, either alone or as an adjuvant to resection. For patients with negative resection margins, postoperative radiation is not recommended. Patients with positive margins should almost always receive 50 Gy of postoperative radiation. Unresectable tumors should be irradiated to a dose of approximately 56 Gy, with a 75% expectation of local control.     

Preclinical in vivo antitumor activity of vinflunine, a novel fluorinated Vinca alkaloid

Vinflunine, or 20′,20′-difluoro-3′,4′-dihydrovino‐relbine, is a novel Vinca alkaloid obtained by hemisynthesis using superacidic chemistry. The most impressive structural modification of this vinorelbine derivative was the selective introduction of two fluorine atoms at the 20′ position, a part of the molecule previously inaccessible by classic chemistry. The antitumor activity of vinflunine was evaluated against a range of transplantable murine and human tumors. Vinflunine exhibited marked activity against murine P388 leukemia grafted i.v. when given i.p. in single or multiple doses according to various schedules or in single i.v. or p.o. doses. Increases in life span achieved with vinflunine, as assessed by T/C ratios, ranged from 200% to 457% and proved markedly superior to those of 129–186% obtained with the other Vinca alkaloids tested. Against s.c.-implanted B16 melanoma, multiple i.p. administration of vinflunine proved active in terms of both survival prolongation and tumor growth inhibition, with optimal T/C values and relative areas under the tumor growth curves (rAUC) being 24% and 36%, respectively. The extent of this activity was superior to that noted for vinorelbine under the same experimental conditions. Growth inhibition of human tumor xenografts LX-1 (lung) and MX-1 (breast) was also observed following four weekly i.p. injections of vinflunine as reflected by optimal T/C values of 23% and 26%, respectively, and significant differences in the rAUCs noted for treated versus control animals. It was also noticeable that vinflunine induced considerably more prolonged inhibitory effects on tumor growth than did vinorelbine. These results demonstrate that vinflunine is well tolerated and is definitively active against a range of experimental animal tumor models. Vinflunine activity has been documented in terms of both survival prolongation and tumor growth inhibition, with definite superiority over vinorelbine being shown in each tumor model evaluated. Received: 13 July 1997 / Accepted: 21 October 1997     

Intracranial leiomyosarcoma: A neuro-oncological consequence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

We describe a case of glioblastoma treated with chemoradiotherapy that spread to the dura mater with direct invasion of the skull base, protrusion into the homolateral nasal fossa, and penetrated of the frontal sinus, the orbital wall and the ethmoidal sinuses. Only eight cases of glioblastoma showing this development have been described in the literature; one of these, however, had a sarcomatous component which was absent in our case.     

Primary metastatic (stage IV) Ewing tumor: Survival analysis of 171 patients from the EICESS studies

Background: In the multicenter European Intergroup Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma Studies, localized Ewing tumors of bone were treated by combination chemotherapy with surgery and/or radiotherapy. Patients with primary metastases (pm-pts) were treated in high risk protocols.Patients and methods: One hundred seventy-seven pm-pts were registered from January 1990 to December 1995, 171 were evaluable for survival analyses. Thirty-six pm-pts received myeloablative megatherapy with stem cell rescue following conventional treatment. Bilateral whole lung irradiation (WLI) was administered in 57 pm-pts with pulmonary involvement. Event-free survival (EFS) rates were estimated by Kaplan–Meier analysis. Prognostic factors were identified by log-rank statistics, Cox procedures and logistic regression.Results: Eighty-nine deaths were recorded by 1 February 1997, EFS four years after diagnosis for all 171 pm-pts was 0.27. EFS for isolated lung metastases was 0.34, for bone/bone marrow (BM) metastases, 0.28, and for combined lung plus bone/BM metastases, 0.14 (P < 0.005). WLI improved outcome in case of isolated pulmonary involvement (0.40 vs. 0.19, P < 0.05). In pm-pts with combined pulmonary/skeletal metastases, intensification by megatherapy and/or WLI improved EFS from 0.00 to 0.27 (P = 0.0001).Conclusions: EFS four years after diagnosis in patients with disseminated Ewing tumors is 0.27. Whole lung irradiation and megatherapy improve outcome in subgroups of patients with disseminated Ewing disease.     

The effect of dexamethasone on the uptake of cisplatin in 9L glioma and the area of brain around tumor

The negative influence of dexamethasone (Dex) on the uptake of cisplatin in brain tumors was investigated in rats bearing 9L glioma. Dex or saline was given intraperitoneally prior to intravenous administration of cisplatin 5 mg/kg. Total Platinum (Pt) concentration was quantified with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) in tumor, brain around tumor (BAT), normal brain and plasma. In the second experiment DNA-adducts of cisplatin were determined in tumor and BAT by AAS. In tumor, there was no difference in the Pt concentration and in the DNA-adduct level between the two treatment groups. In BAT, the Pt level in the Dex group was 0.20 µg/g (SD = 0.10 µg/g), which was significantly lower than in the controls (0.53 µg/g (SD=0.21 µg/g); p < 0.001). In addition, the DNA-adduct level in BAT was 23% lower in the Dex treated rats (p=0.05). In normal brain the Pt concentration was 10-fold lower than in tumor tissue. Thus, Dex did not significantly limit the uptake of cisplatin in brain tumor nor did it influence the uptake in normal brain parenchyma. In contrast, in BAT that has a partially disrupted BBB, the concentrations of Pt and DNA-adduct formation were significantly decreased following pretreatment with Dex. The influence of Dex on limiting the effects of chemotherapy for brain tumors needs further study.     

Detection of p21WAF1/Cip1 in brain metastases

The p21^WAF1/Cip1 (p21) protein, a negative regulator of G₁ checkpoint control, was overexpressed in the majority of human gliomas. To investigate whether p21 expression in brain metastases from various systemic origins is similar to that in gliomas and whether p21 expression is regulated differently in brain metastases and in corresponding primary tumors, we used immunohistochemical staining to examine the expression of p21 in paraffin-embedded sections prepared from primary colon and breast carcinomas and from metastatic brain tumors that originated from colon, breast, lung, and kidney cancers and from melanoma. Our results showed that 56% (28 of 50) of the brain metastases samples have more than 1% p21-positive staining cells compared with 87% of primary gliomas reported previously. Among the samples analyzed, p21 expression in brain metastases from breast carcinomas was much higher than in primary breast carcinomas. In contrast, p21 expression in brain metastases from colon carcinomas was less than primary colon carcinomas. The results from this pilot study suggest that p21 expression is regulated differently in metastatic and primary tumors.