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. 1988 Dec;58(6):738–741. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1988.300

Chemotherapy-radiation interactions in human cervix carcinoma xenografts.

K S Tonkin 1, L R Kelland 1, G G Steel 1
PMCID: PMC2246868  PMID: 2465016

Abstract

The combination of irradiation and four agents of clinical interest in the treatment of cervix carcinoma (bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin and ifosfamide) have been investigated using two human cervix carcinoma xenografts in nude mice. As a model of clinical brachytherapy regimes, radiation was administered at a continuous low dose rate of 5 cGy min-1 to a total dose of 9 or 12 Gy. No substantial enhancement in tumour growth delay over that observed for radiation alone was observed with bleomycin, etoposide or cisplatin. Ifosfamide, however, led to substantial additional growth delay, an effect which was lost when irradiation was administered at a higher dose rate of 70 cGy min-1. As dose-rates of around 5 cGy min-1 allow greater repair of radiation damage than at the higher dose-rate without significant cell cycling or repopulation, it is possible that ifosfamide may act as an inhibitor of repair processes in this model. It would be of interest to evaluate the role of ifosfamide and brachytherapy regimes in the clinical treatment of carcinoma of the cervix.

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