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Can Determination of Circulating Endothelial Cells and Serum Caspase-Cleaved CK18 Predict for Response and Survival in Patients with Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Endostatin and Paclitaxel–Carboplatin Chemotherapy? A Retrospective Study
- Source :
- Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 7(12):1781-1789
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- Introduction: Early prediction of the efficacy of a combination of an antiangiogenic drug with cytotoxic chemotherapy is a significant challenge. In that regard, circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and cytokeratins (CKs) seem to reflect their roles in both tumor angiogenesis and tumor cell death. Methods: Patients with advanced, previously untreated non–small-cell lung cancer were randomly assigned to an endostatin treatment group (paclitaxel + carboplatin + endostatin) and a control group (paclitaxel + carboplatin + placebo). A total of 122 patients were evaluated, of whom 107 had measurements of blood CECs, CK8, caspase-cleaved CK18 (ccCK18), and uncleaved CK18 (CK18) before and at weeks 3 and 6 of treatment, respectively. Results: Higher baseline CECs in patients with a tumor response (partial remission + stable disease, p = 0.002 for the entire group; p = 0.000 for the treatment group) were observed. The number of CECs decreased significantly after endostatin treatment ( p = 0.000), whereas CK levels increased. Increased levels of ccCK18 and CK18, but not CK8, reached significance ( p = 0.001 and p = 0.048, respectively) when compared with the baseline. Tumor response showed a strong correlation with reduction of CECs ( p = 0.000) and increase of ccCK18 ( p = 0.040) after endostatin therapy. Cutoff values of changes of CECs and ccCK18 for prediction of survival were 0.58/μl and 19.6 ng/ml, respectively. Reduction of CECs and increase of ccCK18 significantly correlated with longer median survival ( p = 0.013 and p = 0.016 for progression-free survival; p = 0.009 and p = 0.012 for overall survival, respectively). Conclusions: CECs and CKs could be biomarkers for selecting patients with non–small-cell lung cancer who will benefit from treatment with endostatin in combination with paclitaxel plus carboplatin.
- Subjects :
- Male
Oncology
Pathology
Lung Neoplasms
medicine.medical_treatment
Carboplatin
chemistry.chemical_compound
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Middle Aged
Neoplastic Cells, Circulating
Prognosis
Endostatins
Survival Rate
Paclitaxel
Caspases
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
cardiovascular system
Adenocarcinoma
Female
Endostatin
Adult
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Double-Blind Method
Internal medicine
Biomarkers, Tumor
medicine
Carcinoma
Humans
Lung cancer
Survival rate
Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Retrospective Studies
Chemotherapy
Keratin-18
business.industry
Non–small-cell lung cancer
Biomarker
medicine.disease
chemistry
Case-Control Studies
Cytokeratins
Endothelium, Vascular
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
Circulating endothelial cells
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15560864
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Thoracic Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d4aacce861a9046371988f6f4213afc7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/jto.0b013e3182725fe0