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Stage 2 Combination Testing of Rapamycin with Cytotoxic Agents by the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program
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Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2010-01, Vol.9 (1), p.101-112
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United States: American Association for Cancer Research
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Rapamycin demonstrated broad-spectrum tumor growth inhibition activity against the in vivo panels of childhood tumors used in the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program (PPTP). Here we have evaluated rapamycin combined
with agents used frequently in the treatment of childhood malignancies. Rapamycin was tested in vitro against 23 cell lines alone or in combination with melphalan, cisplatin, vincristine, or dexamethasone (leukemic models only).
In vivo , the impact of combining rapamycin with a cytotoxic agent was evaluated using two measures: 1) the therapeutic enhancement
measure, and 2) a linear regression model for time-to-event to formally evaluate for sub- and supraadditivity for the combination
compared to the agents used alone. Combining rapamycin with cytotoxic agents in vitro gave predominantly subadditive or additive effects, except for dexamethasone in leukemia models for which supra-additive
activity was observed. In vivo testing demonstrated that therapeutic enhancement was common for rapamycin in combination with cyclophosphamide and occurred
for 4 of 11 evaluable xenografts for the rapamycin and vincristine combination. The combinations of rapamycin with either
cyclophosphamide or vincristine were significantly more effective than the respective standard agents used alone at their
maximum tolerated doses (MTD) for most evaluable xenografts. The combination of rapamycin and cisplatin produced excessive
toxicity requiring cisplatin dose reductions, and therapeutic enhancement was not observed for this combination. Addition
of rapamycin to either cyclophosphamide or vincristine at their respective MTDs appears promising, as these combinations are
relatively well tolerated and as many of the pediatric preclinical models evaluated demonstrated therapeutic enhancement for
these combinations. Mol Cancer Ther; 9(1); 101–12