A moderate thermal dose is sufficient for effective free and TSL based thermochemotherapy

We present you an interesting article by Professor van Rohn and his team from Rotterdam, which describes very impressively the effects and advantages of hyperthermia in combination with chemotherapy.

Abstract

Hyperthermia, i.e. heating the tumor to a temperature of 40–43 °C is considered by many a valuable treatment to sensitize tumor cells to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In recent randomized trials the great potential of adding hyperthermia to chemotherapy was demonstrated for treatment of high risk soft tissue sarcoma: +11.4% 5 yrs. overall survival (OS) and for ovarian cancer with peritoneal involvement nearly +12 months OS gain. As a result interest in combining chemotherapy with hyperthermia, i.e. thermochemotherapy, is growing. Extensive biological research has revealed that hyperthermia causes multiple effects, from direct cell kill to improved oxygenation, whereby each effect has a specific temperature range.

Thermal sensitization of the tumor cell for chemotherapy occurs for many drugs at temperatures ranging from 40 to 42 °C with little additional increase of sensitization at higher temperatures. Increasing perfusion/oxygenation and increased extravasation are two other important hyperthermia induced mechanisms. The combination of free drug and hyperthermia has not been found to increase tumor drug concentration. Hence, enhanced effectiveness of free drug will depend on the thermal sensitization of the tumor cells for the applied drug. In contrast to free drugs, experimental animal studies combining hyperthermia and thermo-sensitive liposomal (TSL) drugs delivery have demonstrated to result in a substantial increase of the drug concentration in the tumor. For TSL based chemotherapy, hyperthermia is critical to both increase perfusion and extravasation as well as to trigger TSL drug release, whereby the temperature controlled induction of a local high drug concentration in a highly permeable vessel is driving the enhanced drug uptake in the tumor. Increased drug concentrations up to 26 times have been reported in rodents.

Good control of the tissue temperature is required to keep temperatures below 43 °C to prevent vascular stasis. Further, careful timing of the drug application relative to the start of heating is required to benefit optimal from the combined treatment. From the available experimental data it follows that irrespective whether chemotherapy is applied as free drug or using a thermal sensitive liposomal carrier, the optimal thermal dose for thermochemotherapy should be 40–42 °C for 30–60 min, i.e. equivalent to a CEM43 of 1–15 min. Timing is critical: most free drug should be applied simultaneous with heating, whereas TSL drugs should be applied 20–30 min after the start of hyperthermia.

Read more here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169409X2030020X?via%3Dihub

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