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Martin RCG, Robbins K, Fagés JF, Romero FD, Rustein L, Tomalty D, Monaco R. Optimal outcomes for liver-dominant metastatic breast cancer with transarterial chemoembolization with drug-eluting beads loaded with doxorubicin. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 132:753-63. [PMID: 22200868 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1926-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of image-guided delivery of locoregional chemotherapy to breast cancer hepatic metastases using doxorubicin-loaded drug-eluting beads (DEBDOX). An IRB-approved multi-center, prospective, open, non-controlled repeat treatment registry to investigate the safety and efficacy of doxorubicin microspheres in the treatment of patients with unresectable liver metastasis from breast cancer was reviewed. Statistical analysis was performed with differences of P < 0.05 considered significant. About 40 patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) to the liver underwent a total of 75 image-guided procedures with hepatic arterial drug-eluting beads loaded with doxorubicin (DEBDOX). Treatment was well tolerated with a total of eight patients sustaining 13 adverse events within the 30 days of each treatment session. All adverse events were either a grade I or grade II in toxicity. After a median follow-up of 12 months in all patients, the hepatic progression-free survival was a median of 26 months and overall survival was a median of 47 months. The treatment of hepatic metastasis from MBC using DEBDOX is an effective local therapy with very high response rates and a very safe toxicity profile. In comparison to chemotherapy alone, consideration of hepatic-directed therapy is warranted in patients with liver-dominant metastatic disease.
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- Robert C G Martin
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
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Elias AD, Richardson P, Avigan D, Ibrahim J, Joyce R, Demetri G, Levine J, Warren D, Arthur T, Reich E, Wheele C, Frei E, Ayash L. A short course of induction chemotherapy followed by two cycles of high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue for chemotherapy naive metastatic breast cancer. Bone Marrow Transplant 2001; 27:269-78. [PMID: 11277174 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A single cycle of high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell support (HDC) in women with responsive metastatic breast cancer (BC) consistently achieves over 50% complete and near complete response (CR/nCR). This significant cytoreduction results in a median event-free survival (EFS) of 8 months, and approximately 20% 3-year and 16% 5-year EFS in selected patients. To improve long-term outcomes, new strategies to treat minimal residual tumor burden are needed. Increased total dose delivered can be achieved with two cycles of HDC. Critical design issues include shortening induction chemotherapy to avoid development of drug resistance and the use of different agents for each HDC cycle. We have determined the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) for paclitaxel combined with high-dose melphalan in the context of a double transplant and explored the impact of a short induction phase. Between June 1994 and August 1996, we enrolled 32 women with metastatic BC on to this phase I double transplant trial. Induction consisted of doxorubicin 30 mg/m2/day days 1-3 given for 2 cycles every 14 days with G-CSF 5 microg/kg s.c. days 4-12. Stem cell collection was performed by leukapheresis in each cycle when the WBC recovered to above 1000/microl. Patients with stable disease or better response to induction were eligible to proceed with HDC. HDC regimen I (TxM) included paclitaxel with dose escalation from 0 to 300 mg/m2 given on day 1 and melphalan 180 mg/m2 in two divided doses given on day 3. HDC regimen II was CTCb (cyclophosphamide 6 g/m2, thiotepa 500 mg/m2, and carboplatin 800 mg/m2 total doses) delivered by 96-h continuous infusion. At the first dose level of 150 mg/m2 paclitaxel by 3 h infusion, four of five patients developed dose-limiting toxicity consisting of diffuse skin erythema and capillary leak syndrome. Only two of these five completed the second transplant. Subsequently, paclitaxel was delivered by 24-h continuous infusion together with 96 h of dexamethasone and histamine receptor blockade. This particular toxicity was not observed again. No toxic deaths occurred and dose-limiting toxicity was not encountered. Three patients were removed from study prior to transplant: one for insurance refusal and two for disease progression. All others completed both cycles of transplant. Complete and near complete response (CR/nCR) after completion of therapy was achieved in 23 (72%) of 32 patients. The median EFS is 26 months. The median overall survival has not yet been reached. At a median follow-up of 58 months, EFS and overall survival are 41% and 53%, respectively. This double transplant approach is feasible, safe, and tolerable. Treatment duration is only 14 weeks and eliminates lengthy induction chemotherapy. The observed event-free and overall survivals are promising and are better than expected following a single transplant. Whilst selection biases may in part contribute to this effect, a much larger phase II double transplant trial is warranted in preparation for a potential randomized comparison of standard therapy vs single vs double transplant.
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- A D Elias
- Harvard Medical School, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Cameron DA, Leonard RC. The case for high-dose adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: (II) clinical experience. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY 1996; 22:634-7. [PMID: 9005153 DOI: 10.1016/s0748-7983(96)92528-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Recent Phase II studies on the use of myelo-ablative chemotherapy in breast cancer have confirmed that this approach is associated with low mortality and apparent efficacy. In a preceding article the theoretical arguments were presented for testing this approach in the high-risk adjuvant setting; in the current article the clinical data justifying the present approaches for this type of treatment are reviewed. The evidence suggests that peripheral blood stem cell supported myelo-ablative chemotherapy should be tested against conventional regimens in order to determine whether or not the increased expense and toxicity of such an approach is associated with improved survival for women whose axillary node status places them at high risk of disease relapse and subsequent death.
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- D A Cameron
- Directorate of Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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Cameron DA, Craig J, Gabra H, Lee L, MacKay J, Parker AC, Leonard RC, Anderson E, Anderson T, Chetty U, Dixon M, Hawkins A, Jack W, Kunkler I, Leonard R, Matheson L, Miller W. High-dose chemotherapy supported by peripheral blood progenitor cells in poor prognosis metastatic breast cancer--phase I/II study. Edinburgh Breast Group. Br J Cancer 1996; 74:2013-7. [PMID: 8980406 PMCID: PMC2074804 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Current treatments for metastatic breast cancer are not associated with significant survival benefits despite response rates of over 50%. High-dose therapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) has been investigated, particularly in North America, and prolonged survival in up to 25% of women has been reported, but with a significant treatment-related mortality. However, in patients with haematological malignancies undergoing autologous transplantation, haematopoietic reconstruction is significantly quicker and mortality lower than with ABMT, when peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs) are used. In 32 women with metastatic breast cancer, we investigated the feasibility of PBPC mobilisation with high-dose cyclophosphamide and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) after 12 weeks' infusional induction chemotherapy and the subsequent efficacy of the haematopoietic reconstitution after conditioning with melphalan and either etoposide or thiotepa. PBPC mobilisation was successful in 28/32 (88%) patients, and there was a rapid post-transplantation haematopoietic recovery: median time to neutrophils > 0.5 x 10(9) l-1 was 14 days and to platelets > 20 x 10(9) l-1 was 10 days. There was no procedure-related mortality, and the major morbidity was mucositis (WHO grade 3-4) in 18/32 patients (56%). In a patient group of which the majority had very poor prognostic features, the median survival from start of induction chemotherapy was 15 months. Thus, PBPC mobilisation and support of high-dose chemotherapy is feasible after infusional induction chemotherapy for patients with metastatic breast cancer, although the optimum drug combination has not yet been determined.
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Efremidis AP, Koumakis G, Filis J, Moraki M, Vassilomanolakis M, Hatzichristou H, Barbounis V, Stamatellou M, Papanastasiou K, Kritsioti M, Plataniotis G, Arseni P. Peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) transplantation with a single apheresis in patients with lymphoma, myeloma and solid tumors. Eur J Haematol 1996; 57:269-77. [PMID: 8982289 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1996.tb01377.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The aim of this study was to investigate if a single apheresis after peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) mobilization can be used to rescue patients receiving high dose chemotherapy (HD.CHE) as treatment for an underlying malignancy. Eighteen consecutive patients who were admitted to the transplant unit for treatment were leukapheresed following mobilization with one of the following protocols: group I: rHuG-CSF alone, group II: conventional chemotherapy (C.CHE) + rHuG-CSF or rHuGM-CSF and group III: high dose cytoxan (HD.CTX) + rHuG-CSF. The optimal day for leukapheresis was determined by following white blood cell counts (WBC), mononuclear cell counts (MNC) and CD34+ cell counts daily. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells (GM-CFC) assay was performed at the leukapheresis product and prior to reinfusion. All patients proceeded directly to ablative therapy according to their underlying malignancy. PBPC from single apheresis were reinfused to all patients and cytokines started 24 h after infusion. Hematologic recovery after HD.CHE was the parameter used to ensure successful engraftment. We have been able to recover adequate number of PBPC for transplantation with a single apheresis in all patients. The number of infused cells were for groups I, II and III: (1) median number of MNC 4.7, 3.58 and 2.79 x 10(8)/kg, respectively (2); median number of CD34+ cells 4.4, 2.8, 2.7 x 10(6)/kg, respectively. The median apheresis day was 6, 16 and 16, respectively. Recovery times to granulocyte count > 0.5 x 10(9)/ L was 9 d (range 9-12) and to platelets > 20 x 10(9)/L was 12 d (range 1-135); 17/18 patients have engrafted successfully independent of the mobilization method used. These data suggest that sufficient PBPC can be harvested at a single leukapheresis for hemopoietic rescue after myeloablative therapy. Rapid hematologic recovery occurs when cytokines alone after conventional or HD.CHE are used for mobilization. Results of collection products and hematopoietic recovery are independent of the mobilization technique used.
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- A P Efremidis
- BMT Unit, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, St Savas Oncology Hospital, Athens, Greece
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"Dose response" refers to a direct relationship between the amount of chemotherapy administered and observed degree of antitumor effect. What is often implied by the term is the administration of pulsed, high dose therapy, resulting in very high peak concentrations. Clinically, this has been translated as multiple alkylating agent-based regimens requiring intensive supportive care and associated with substantial morbidity and an appreciable mortality risk. Such regimens typically are given as consolidation after an initial period of standard outpatient therapy and may require autologous hematopoietic stem cell support. "Dose intensity" is defined as the amount of drug administered per unit of time, typically reported in mg/m2/week. This is a more precise term than "dose response." A dose-intensive regimen may or may not be one associated with high peak concentrations. For example, prolonged or continuous administration of an agent like cyclophosphamide may be quite dose-intensive, but will be associated with lower peak concentrations and less acute toxicity than a similarly dose-intensive, pulsed high dose regimen of the same drug. Retrospective analyses and prospective, randomized trials suggest the importance of dose intensity in the treatment of breast cancer. The evidence that high dose therapy (associated with high peak plasma levels) is beneficial in breast cancer rests on a number of Phase II trials. In the setting of poor prognosis Stage IV disease, these trials suggest little improvement in median survival, but better long term survival (at or beyond 2 years) in 15-25% of such patients. This benefiting cohort appears to be in unmaintained disease free remission, whereas standard therapy in the past has almost never produced such remissions in the poor prognosis subgroup of Stage IV disease. In the setting of high risk Stage II disease, Phase II trials of similar high dose therapy indicate a higher proportion of patients who are free of recurrence at 2-3 years than expected from available historic controls. Randomized trials are now underway in Stage IV poor prognosis patients and in Stage II high risk patients to see whether the apparent improvements in outcome associated with pulsed high dose chemotherapy can be validated prospectively. The regimens under study in these randomized trials include agents that require autologous support with harvested bone marrow and/or peripheral blood progenitor cells. Such obligate stem cell support carries with it the risk of tumor cell contamination in the collection and subsequent iatrogenic dissemination of disease.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- R B Livingston
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Han ZC, Caen JP. Cytokines acting on committed haematopoietic progenitors. BAILLIERE'S CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY 1994; 7:65-89. [PMID: 8038500 DOI: 10.1016/s0950-3536(05)80007-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Z C Han
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institut des Vaisseaux et du Sang, Paris, France
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Fleischman RA. Southwestern Internal Medicine Conference: clinical use of hematopoietic growth factors. Am J Med Sci 1993; 305:248-73. [PMID: 7682752 DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199304000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The hematopoietic growth factors, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), have been cloned, produced in bacteria and yeast, and approved for clinical use in the treatment of neutropenia. Both factors stimulate the proliferation and maturation of neutrophil progenitors and enhance the effector functions of mature cells by interaction with specific receptors on the cell surface. Serum levels of G-CSF correlate inversely with the neutrophil count, suggesting that G-CSF may be the normal homeostatic regulator of the neutrophil count, while GM-CSF is generally undetectable in the serum and appears under normal physiologic conditions to act locally at inflammatory sites. Phase I and II clinical trials with these factors demonstrated minimal toxicity for G-CSF and mild to moderate dose-dependent toxicity for GM-CSF. Recent clinical trials, including double-blind, randomized studies, support a role for these growth factors in the treatment of chronic neutropenias, such as Kostmann's syndrome, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), aplastic anemia, and myelodysplasia, as well as in acute neutropenias, such as cyclic neutropenia, chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, and bone marrow transplantation.
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- R A Fleischman
- Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-8852
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Mross K, Bohn C, Edler L, Jonat W, Queisser W, Heidemann E, Goebel M, Hossfeld DK. Randomized phase II study of single-agent epirubicin +/- verapamil in patients with advanced metastatic breast cancer. An AIO clinical trial. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie of the German Cancer Society. Ann Oncol 1993; 4:45-50. [PMID: 8435362 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.annonc.a058356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Anthracyclines are the most active cytostatic agents in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Drug resistance and dose intensity are relevant issues in the treatment of cancer. METHODS A randomized phase II study in 51 patients with advanced progressive metastatic breast cancer was performed. Twenty-six were treated with epirubicin (EPI) 120 mg/m2 i.v. bolus injection divided over three days combined with a daily dose of 480 mg verapamil (VPL) orally administered one day before and during EPI. Twenty-five patients received the same dose and schedule of EPI without VPL. Evaluation of response was carried out after three 21-day cycles. Study endpoints were objective response rate and overall survival. RESULTS Among the 24 evaluable patients treated with EPI+VPL 1 CR (4%), 7 PR (29%), 9 NC (38%) and 7 PD (29%) were observed. Two patients were excluded because of toxicity. Among the 24 evaluable patients treated with EPI alone 8 PR (28%), 6 NC (24%) and 10 PD (40%) were observed, and one patient was excluded because of toxicity. Myelotoxicity was the major side effect followed by alopecia, stomatitis/mucositis and nausea. The patient group treated with VPL had lower blood pressure levels during therapy, with complete normalization after discontinuation of VPL. The median overall survival times were similar: 7.4 month in the EPI group and 8.9 month in the EPI+VPL group. CONCLUSION In both treatment groups the objective response rate was about 30% and the overall survival rates were also the same. No clinical relevance could be demonstrated for the hypothesized resistance modifying action of VPL. Furthermore, VPL did not increase the toxicity of EPI.
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- K Mross
- University Hospital Eppendorf, Dept. Oncology and Hematology, Hamburg
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Elias AD, Ayash L, Tepler I, Wheeler C, Schwartz G, Mazanet R, Schnipper L, Frei E, Antman K. The use of G-CSF or GM-CSF mobilized peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) alone or to augment marrow as hematologic support of single or multiple cycle high-dose chemotherapy. JOURNAL OF HEMATOTHERAPY 1993; 2:377-82. [PMID: 7522891 DOI: 10.1089/scd.1.1993.2.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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High dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow support (ABMT) can achieve prolonged relapse-free survival in relapsed lymphomas, leukemias, and certain solid tumors. The principal morbidity and mortality relate to the infectious complications that occur during the 3-4 week aplasia until the marrow autograft recovers. Progenitor cells can be mobilized into the peripheral blood compartment by hematopoietic growth factors, used alone or after chemotherapy. We describe four trials using cytokine-mobilized peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC). In the first trial, PBPC collected after GM-CSF administration were used to augment marrow. Reconstitution of trilineage marrow function occurred promptly, resulting in short hospital stays and fewer platelet transfusions. In a second study, GM-CSF/chemotherapy-mobilized PBPC were used as the sole hematopoietic support during high dose chemotherapy. Granulocyte and platelet reconstitution was rapid. Time to hematopoietic recovery, transfusion requirements, and duration of hospital stay were all significantly improved for the patients receiving PBPC compared with similar patients receiving marrow alone. While most patients experienced prompt hematopoietic recovery they showed sluggish platelet engraftment. The next two trials built on the observation that a few PBPC alone could support both granulocyte and platelet recovery and were designed to test the feasibility of sequential high-dose therapies. In one trial, PBPC given with and without marrow made it possible to deliver two sequential cycles of high-dose therapy. The second trial utilized PBPC plus cytokines to deliver four cycles of dose-intensive chemotherapy at doses that could not be given with cytokine support alone.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A D Elias
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Crawford J, Green MR. The role of colony stimulating factors as an adjunct to lung cancer chemotherapy: A commentary. Lung Cancer 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0169-5002(92)90002-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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