Effect of Intraperitoneal Radium-Labelled Microparticles on Compartmentalized Inflammation After Cytoreductive Surgery and Hypertherm Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

Despite extensive treatment with surgery and chemotherapy many patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer experience intraperitoneal disease relapse. The α-emitting 224 radium-labelled microparticle radionuclide therapeutic Radspherin® is being explored as a novel treatment option fo...

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Published in:Technology in cancer research & treatment Vol. 22
Main Authors: Ebbe Billmann Thorgersen MD, PhD, Jørund Asvall MD, Camilla Schjalm MSc, Karin Ekholt McAdam MSc, Øyvind Sverre Bruland MD, PhD, Stein Gunnar Larsen MD, PhD, Tom Eirik Mollnes MD, PhD
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 01-08-2023
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Summary:Despite extensive treatment with surgery and chemotherapy many patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer experience intraperitoneal disease relapse. The α-emitting 224 radium-labelled microparticle radionuclide therapeutic Radspherin® is being explored as a novel treatment option for these patients. Radspherin® is specially designed to give local radiation to the surface of the peritoneal cavity and potentially kill remaining attached micrometastases as well as free-floating cancer cells, thus preventing future relapse. The effect of Radspherin® on the immune system is not known. Systemic and local inflammatory responses were analyzed in plasma, intraperitoneal fluid and urine collected prospectively as part of a phase 1 dose-escalation study of intraperitoneal instillation of the α-emitting therapeutic radiopharmaceutical Radspherin®, at baseline and the first 7 postoperative days from nine patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. All patients additionally received intraperitoneal instillation of Radspherin® on postoperative day 2. Complement activation products C3bc and the terminal complement complex were analyzed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Cytokines ( n  = 27), including interleukins, chemokines, interferons and growth factors, were analyzed using multiplex technique. The time course and magnitude of the postoperative cytokine response after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy displayed a modest systemic response in plasma, in contrast to a substantial local intraperitoneal response. After administration of Radspherin®, a significant increase ( P  < 0.05) in TNF and MIP-1β was observed in both plasma and peritoneal fluid, whereas IL-9 increased only in plasma and IFNγ and IL1-RA only in peritoneal fluid. Only minor changes were seen for the majority of the inflammatory markers after Radspherin® administration. Our study showed a predominately local rather than systemic inflammatory response to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Radspherin® had overall modest impact on the inflammation.
ISSN:1533-0338
DOI:10.1177/15330338231192902