| Literature DB >> 8517641 |
T Furukawa1, T Kubota, M Watanabe, T H Kuo, S Kase, Y Saikawa, H Tanino, T Teramoto, K Ishibiki, M Kitajima.
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A metastatic model of human colon cancer has been previously established using orthotopic onplantation of histologically intact in tissue nude mice. In this study, effects of immunochemotherapy using OK-432, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and mitomycin C (MMC) on Col-2-JCK, a human colon cancer xenograft, were evaluated using this model. When 5-FU and MMC were administered without OK-432, liver metastases were not reduced even at maximum tolerated doses of both drugs, although cecal tumor growth was significantly reduced. On the other hand, when combined with OK-432, both 5-FU and MMC reduced liver metastases with synergistic reduction of cecal tumor growth, demonstrating the potential of combining immunotherapy with chemotherapy against metastases.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8517641
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Anticancer Res ISSN: 0250-7005 Impact factor: 2.480