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ArticleClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2016

The combinational therapy of trastuzumab and cetuximab inhibits tumor growth in a patient-derived tumor xenograft model of gastric cancer.

C J Wang, P J Tong, M Y Zhu

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Article in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

C J WangDepartment of Internal Medicine, Taizhou Central Hospital, Taizhou, 310008, Zhejiang, China.
P J TongDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
M Y ZhuDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China. zyyzhumengyong@126.com.
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CNTaizhou Central Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeGastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality worldwide. Although therapeutic strategies for GC have improved, the prognosis for advanced GC remains poor. Herein, the present study sought to design a personalized cancer therapy specific to a stage III GC patient.

methodsThe tumor was surgically removed and was used to establish a patient-derived tumor xenograft (PDTX) model utilizing nude mice. Various molecular-targeted anticancer treatments were tested in the study, including control (no treatment), bevacizumab, cetuximab, bevacizumab + cetuximab, trastuzumab, and trastuzumab + cetuximab.

resultsTrastuzumab + cetuximab treatment exhibited the best antitumor growth effect, followed by trastuzumab, bevacizumab + cetuximab, cetuximab, and bevacizumab. Similarly, trastuzumab + cetuximab was also the most effective treatment at inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in primary cultures of the patient's gastric cancer cells. Among all treatments tested in the study, trastuzumab + cetuximab showed the most profound effect in reducing the protein expression of proliferation and metastatic markers (VEGF, MMP-7, EGFT, Ki-67 and, PCNA) in tumors obtained from PDTX models, which may be the mechanism underlying the profound antitumor growth effect exerted by trastuzumab + cetuximab.

conclusionsThe data indicate that trastuzumab + cetuximab combinational therapy should be the most effective antitumor growth therapy for the GC patient whom we took the cancer cells from.

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AgedAnimalsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsApoptosisBlotting, WesternCell CycleCetuximabFlow CytometryHumansMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeNeoplasm StagingPrognosisStomach NeoplasmsCetuximabTrastuzumabCetuximabChemotherapyGastric cancerPatient-derived tumor xenograftTrastuzumabTumor growth

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