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Radiation and drug combo helps boost efficacy of lung cancer treatment
Date:8/31/2007

DALLAS Sept. 1, 2007 Combining radiation therapy with a drug that helps destroy blood vessels nourishing malignant tumors has been shown in mice to be significantly more effective in treating lung cancer than either approach alone, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

The study, involving human lung-cancer cells implanted in mice, appears in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

In the study, Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of pharmacology at UT Southwestern, and his colleagues found that radiation generates a chemical reaction in the membranes of endothelial cells, which line the blood vessels that feed tumors. The reaction causes membrane components called anionic phospholipids to flip inside out, exposing them. In normal blood vessels, they face the interior of the cell.

Dr. Thorpes previous research has shown that anionic phospholipids, particularly one called phosphatidylserine, are already flipped inside-out on tumor endothelial cells.

The flipping is likely due to stress conditions present in the tumor micro-environment, and radiation increases the number of exposed phospholipids, said Dr. Thorpe.

Once they induced more flipping with radiation, the researchers administered bavituximab, a monoclonal antibody that homes in on tumor vessels by selectively binding to the inside out phospholipids. The binding signals white blood cells from the immune system to attack and destroy the vessels feeding the tumor.

In their study of mice, the researchers found that radiation increased the percentage of phospholipids that flip inside out from 4 percent to 26 percent. Treating the mice with bavituximab and radiation therapy together reduced tumor growth by 80 percent and was more effective than administering either treatment by itself.

About 30 percent of all lung-cancer patients receive radiation and, in this animal model of lung cancer, we found that this monoclonal anitbody improves the efficacy of radiati
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Contact: Connie Piloto
connie.piloto@utsouthwestern.edu
214-648-3404
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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