REGIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER - EXPERIENCES WITH 116 PERFUSIONS
REGIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER - EXPERIENCES WITH 116 PERFUSIONS
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DOI:
10.1097/00000658-196004000-00024
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发表时间:
1960-01-01
影响因子:
9
通讯作者:
HEALEY, JE
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作者:
STEHLIN, JS;CLARK, RL;HEALEY, JE
REGIONAL chemotherapy administered by the perfusion technic offers interesting possibilities as an adjuvant to surgical treatment for selected malignant tumors. The administration of a chemotherapeutic agent to a specific part of the body apparently was first described in 1950, by Klopp and his associates.'3, 14 Byintra-arterial injections of fractionated doses, they were able to deliver nitrogen mustard to specific regions in amounts sufficient to produce more pronounced. changes in the tumor than were possible following intravenous administra-tion. At the same time, they mentionedthe possibility of employing the heart-lung machine to maintain the circulation in an isolated tumor-bearing extremity during the therapeutic procedure. Also in 1950, Bierman and his co-workers 5 observed that intra-arterial injections of nitrogen mustard vere followed byless systemic toxicity than were intravenous injections. In addition, they described technics wherebythe drug could be introduced directly into the area of the neoplasm. 6 Since these early reports, investigators both here and abroad have conducted experiments in intra-arterial injection of various compounds for many types of cancer in different locations. 14-7, 9-12 In 1958, interest in regional chemotherapy for cancer was further stimulated byCreech et al., 8 who reported their results with perfusion by means of an extracorporeal circuit. With this procedure, large amounts of a drug may be delivered to an isolated extremity, organ, or region of the body under high arterial oxygen tension. Use of perfusions in the treatment and study of patients with cancer was initiated in The University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital in December, 1957, and thus far 116 have been performed (Table 1). The majority have been confined to the extremities, a smaller number to the pelvis, and several to the head. More than half the patients have had malignant melanoma. The drugs chiefly employed have been the alkylating agents, 7r-di (2-chloroethyl)-amino-L-phenylalanine (phenylalanine mustard) and methyl-bis (/3-chloroethyl) amine hydrochloride (nitrogen mustard). These agents have been investigated extensively with respect to their hydrolysis or breakdown in aqueous solutions or body fluids, and also their reactivity with specific components, such as nucleic acids, proteins, and en-zymes. It is generally believed that they interfere with the metabolism and composi-tion of cellularnucleoprotein and thereby affect the normal sequence of mitosis or cellular division. Whether or not all alkylating agents act in the same general manner, however, is open to question. Since Luck 15, 16 observed that phenylalanine mustard was more effective in the inhibition or retarda-tion ofgrowth of mouse melanomas than other agents, our patients with melanoma 605