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Multimodality Therapy

Multimodality Therapy. Nic Denko Radiation Biology 2011. Cancer is a systemic disease. Therapeutic modalities can be either localized, (such as radiation or surgery), or systemic (such as chemotherpy )

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Multimodality Therapy

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  1. Multimodality Therapy Nic Denko Radiation Biology 2011

  2. Cancer is a systemic disease • Therapeutic modalities can be either localized, (such as radiation or surgery), or systemic (such as chemotherpy) • To treat cancer we need to think about combining the best of the various modalities to eradicate tumor cells (or make them dormant)

  3. How much cell killing is needed? • 10^9 cells per ml • 100 mls of tumor • 10^11 clonogens • Surgical debulking removes 99% of tumor, still left with 10^9 clonogens that need to be killed. • Radiation and chemo needed for eradication.

  4. Radiation can be combined with • Surgery (possible IORT or adjuvant) • Conventional chemotherapy (before, during or after XRT) • Molecularly targeted chemotherapy • Non-standard modalities such as heat, RIT, PDT

  5. We would like to “synergize” therapies • Additive killing is ok, as long as toxicities are not overlapping as well (iemyelosupression versus renal toxicity) • We would like to rationally add modalities to achieve more than additive toxicities • Consider mechanism of killing, timing of doses, and mechanism of repair

  6. Isobologram Drugs A and B have equal potency at concentrations A and B (ie IC50). Combinations that give the same effect but fall below the line are superadditive Combinations that give the same effect but fall above the line are antagonistic

  7. XRT with Temzar For GBM

  8. Two very different mechanisms Of cell kill by conventional chemotherapies

  9. Synthetic Lethality

  10. Mechanism of Cell Kill for Different Agents

  11. Response of Stomach cancer cells To various chemotherapies

  12. Cellular Response to Taxanes in vitro

  13. How to combine XRT with Chemo? Boost to bulky disease Sites where chemo cannot penetrate

  14. Taxanes can radiosensitize through modification of the cell cycle

  15. 9% increase in survival With the addition of Cetuximab to XRT for HNC Presence of Rash Predicts for response

  16. Drugs can have +/- OERs

  17. Oxygen as a Drug Modifying Factor

  18. Tumor Cell Heterogeneity Leads to selection of resistant Clones over time

  19. MDR (resistant) cells are not resistant to Radiation

  20. Heat is toxic to cells

  21. Peripheral tumors can be more easily heated

  22. Effects of HT on immune function

  23. Randomized phase 3 trial Showing a benefit of Adding heat to XRT for Superficial tumors Chest wall recurrences

  24. Novel use of Heat to Target Tumors

  25. Summary • Radiation is one tool in the oncologists toolbox • How can we rationally combine it with other tools to get 10^11 logs of cell kill • Can we combine modalities with genetics to achieve synthetic lethality

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