Chemoradioimmunotherapy with 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin and interferon-α in pancreatic and periampullary cancer: Results of a feasibility study

Autor: CF Hess, Mirko Nitsche, Olivier Pradier, Hans Christiansen, O. Horstmann, Heinz Schmidberger, Robert Michael Hermann, Heinz Becker
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pancreatic disease
medicine.medical_treatment
Antineoplastic Agents
Risk Assessment
Gastroenterology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Pancreatic cancer
medicine
Periampullary cancer
Humans
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Radiology
Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Survival rate
Neoplasm Staging
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
business.industry
Patient Selection
Radiotherapy Dosage
medicine.disease
Combined Modality Therapy
people.cause_of_death
Recombinant Proteins
3. Good health
Surgery
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Survival Rate
Radiation therapy
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Concomitant
Interferon Type I
Feasibility Studies
Female
Fluorouracil
Immunotherapy
Cisplatin
business
people
Chemoradiotherapy
Progressive disease
Zdroj: Cancer/Radiothérapie. 12:817-821
ISSN: 1278-3218
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2008.09.009
Popis: Background Recent studies give rise to the hypothesis, that adjuvant chemoradioimmunotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), cisplatin and interferon-α (IFN-α) might be a possible new treatment of pancreatic cancer in resected patients. We report the up-to-now experience at our institution. Patients and methods Eleven patients with histological diagnosis of localized carcinoma of the pancreas ( n = 7) or periampullary ( n = 4) were prospectively analyzed. Four patients were deemed unresectable because of local invasion of adjacent organs (neoadjuvant setting) and seven patients underwent curative resection (adjuvant setting). Eight patients were classified as T3 carcinomas and three T4 carcinomas. Fifty-five per cent (6/11) of the patients presented with positive lymph node involvement. One histological Grade I, six Grade II and three Grade III were detected. External conformal irradiation to a total dose of 50.4 Gy with 1.8 Gy per day was delivered. All patients received a concomitant chemotherapy with continuous 5-FU 200 mg/m 2 per day on 28 treatment days and intravenous bolus cisplatin 30 mg/m 2 per week (Day 2, 9, 16, 23, 30). A recombinant r-IFN-α was administered on three days weekly during Week one to five of the radiotherapy course as subcutanous injections with 3*3 Mio. I.U. weekly. Results The four-year overall survival rate for all patients was 55%. In the neoadjuvant group, three of four patients died due to progressive disease; in the adjuvant group, combined chemoradioimmunotherapy lead to controlled disease in five of seven patients. The overall toxicity was well-managed. Conclusion Our data strengthens the hypothesis of concomitant chemoradioimmunotherapy with 5-FU, IFN-α and cisplatin as a possible new treatment of pancreatic cancer in resected patients.
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