TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of conventional chemosensitivity test and tissue biomarker expression in predicting response to treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis from colon cancer
AU - Arienti, Chiara
AU - Tesei, Anna
AU - Verdecchia, Giorgio Maria
AU - Framarini, Massimo
AU - Virzì, Salvatore
AU - Grassi, Antonio
AU - Scarpi, Emanuela
AU - Turci, Livia
AU - Silvestrini, Rosella
AU - Amadori, Dino
AU - Zoli, Wainer
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Background: 5-Fluorouracil- or oxaliplatin-based regimens are the treatments of choice in patients with PC from colon cancer. There are currently no useful preclinical evaluations to guide the decision-making process for tailored therapy. The aim of the present study was to compare the advantages and limits of a conventional in vitro chemosensitivity test with those of a panel of biomolecular markers in predicting clinical response to different drugs used to treat colon cancer-derived PC. Patients and Methods: Fresh surgical biopsy specimens were obtained from 28 patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from colon cancer. TS, TP, DPD, MDR1, MRP-1, MGMT, BRCA1, ERCC1, GSTP1, and XPD gene expression levels were determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. An in vitro chemosensitivity test was used to define a sensitivity or resistance profile to the drugs used to treat each patient. Results: Expression levels of the genes analyzed were generally poorly related to each other. TS and ERCC1 expression was inversely related to response to 5-FU-and/or oxaliplatin-containing regimens. Significant predictivity in terms of sensitivity but poor predictivity of resistance (56.2%) (P =.037) were observed for ERCC1 expression (90%), and high predictivity of resistance (100%) but very low predictivity of sensitivity (40%) (P =.014) were registered for TS. The best overall and significant predictivity was observed for chemosensitivity test results (62.5% sensitivity and 89% resistance; P =.005). Conclusions: Sensitivity and resistance to drugs used in vivo was better defined by the chemosensitivity test than by biomarker expression.
AB - Background: 5-Fluorouracil- or oxaliplatin-based regimens are the treatments of choice in patients with PC from colon cancer. There are currently no useful preclinical evaluations to guide the decision-making process for tailored therapy. The aim of the present study was to compare the advantages and limits of a conventional in vitro chemosensitivity test with those of a panel of biomolecular markers in predicting clinical response to different drugs used to treat colon cancer-derived PC. Patients and Methods: Fresh surgical biopsy specimens were obtained from 28 patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from colon cancer. TS, TP, DPD, MDR1, MRP-1, MGMT, BRCA1, ERCC1, GSTP1, and XPD gene expression levels were determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. An in vitro chemosensitivity test was used to define a sensitivity or resistance profile to the drugs used to treat each patient. Results: Expression levels of the genes analyzed were generally poorly related to each other. TS and ERCC1 expression was inversely related to response to 5-FU-and/or oxaliplatin-containing regimens. Significant predictivity in terms of sensitivity but poor predictivity of resistance (56.2%) (P =.037) were observed for ERCC1 expression (90%), and high predictivity of resistance (100%) but very low predictivity of sensitivity (40%) (P =.014) were registered for TS. The best overall and significant predictivity was observed for chemosensitivity test results (62.5% sensitivity and 89% resistance; P =.005). Conclusions: Sensitivity and resistance to drugs used in vivo was better defined by the chemosensitivity test than by biomarker expression.
KW - Colon cancer
KW - ERCC1
KW - In vitro chemosensitivity test
KW - Peritoneal carcinomatosis
KW - Response prediction
KW - TS
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U2 - 10.1016/j.clcc.2012.11.006
DO - 10.1016/j.clcc.2012.11.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 23332421
AN - SCOPUS:84876842335
VL - 12
SP - 122
EP - 127
JO - Clinical Colorectal Cancer
JF - Clinical Colorectal Cancer
SN - 1533-0028
IS - 2
ER -