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The antiemetic efficacy of granisetron, ondansetron and tropisetron was evaluated in patients treated with cisplatin-Adriamycin (CDP/ADM) and ifosfamide (IFO) by continuous infusion (CI). In all, 90 patients with osteosarcoma were randomly assigned to receive granisetron (2 mg/m2), or ondansetron (5.3 mg/m2), or tropisetron (3.3 mg/m2) plus dexamethasone 8 mg/m2. Chemotherapy consisted of CDP (120 mg/m2, 48-h CI) followed by ADM (75 mg/m2, 24-h CI) and then, in the second cycle, delivered 3 weeks later, IFO 15 g/m2 (120-h CI). Complete protection (CP) from emesis was obtained on 59% of the 717 days of treatment, without significant differences among the three study drugs. A significantly higher rate of CP was obtained during chemotherapy with IFO than with CDP/ ADM (69% vs 44%; P<0.0001). The rate of CP declined from the first to the last day of treatment for both CDP/ADM (61% to 27%, P<0.0001) and IFO (95% to 43%) cycles (P<0.0001). When CDP/ ADM and IFO are delivered on multiple days by CI, granisetron, ondansetron and tropisetron have the same antiemetic efficacy, which declines from the first day onward through successive days.
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PMID:Granisetron, tropisetron, and ondansetron in the prevention of acute emesis induced by a combination of cisplatin-Adriamycin and by high-dose ifosfamide delivered in multiple-day continuous infusions. 1073 60

Sixteen dogs with histologically confirmed appendicular osteosarcoma were treated by amputation followed by cisplatin and doxorubicin chemotherapy. All dogs began chemotherapy within 24 hours of surgery. Cisplatin was administered at 50 mg/m2 intravenously (IV) concurrent with saline-induced diuresis. Doxorubicin was administered 24 hours later at 15 mg/m2 as a slow IV bolus. This protocol was given on a 21-day cycle for 4 cycles. No dose delays were required, but dose reduction of doxorubicin was required in 2 dogs because of neutropenia. Thoracic radiography was performed every 2 months after completion of therapy to monitor for metastatic disease. Two dogs were still alive and free from disease at the time of last contact (24 and 75 months, respectively). Postmortem examinations were performed on 13 of the 14 dogs that died. Eight of these dogs were euthanized because of metastatic osteosarcoma. Of the remaining 5 dogs, euthanasia was performed because of complications of idiopathic megaesophagus (n = 1), arthritis (n = 2), and hemangiosarcoma (n = 2). The median disease-free interval and survival times were 15.7 and 18 months, respectively. When compared to a historical group of 36 dogs with appendicular osteosarcoma treated with surgery and 4 doses of cisplatin. both disease-free interval and overall survival were significantly longer in the study population (P < .015 and P < .007, respectively).
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PMID:Cisplatin and doxorubicin combination chemotherapy for the treatment of canine osteosarcoma: a pilot study. 1101 11

Between January 1995 and December 1999, 11 patients with synchronous multifocal osteosarcoma (SMO) received neoadjuvant treatment with high-dose methotrexate, cisplatinum, Adriamycin, and ifosfamide. After primary chemotherapy in 4 patients who had only two bone localizations, it was possible to treat all tumor foci locally. The remaining patients, with more than three bones involved, were treated surgically only in 3 cases at the primary site, while secondary lesions did not receive any treatment. The final results of our study were disappointing. All patients died of the tumor 6 to 24 months after the beginning of treatment (mean 11.9 months). Nevertheless, the survival time of the 4 patients with locally treated lesions was significantly longer than the one of 7 patients in whom the secondary lesions were not locally treated (18.2 vs 9.1 months; P<0.008). It should be noted that those patients simultaneously operated on two sites, the response to chemotherapy of "primary" and "secondary" lesions was always similar. This homogeneity supports the thesis that in synchronous multifocal osteosarcoma the tumors are not multicentric in origin but represent bone-to-bone metastases from a monocentric tumor.
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PMID:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with synchronous multifocal osteosarcoma: results in eleven cases. 1145 Aug 92

In 45 osteosarcoma patients, mean age 18 (4-61) years and followed for 14 (5-48) months, we studied the sensitivity to doxorubicin as well as P-glycoprotein expression, and compared these with the extent of tumour necrosis following chemotherapy. Doxorubicin assay was positive in 37 patients in whom necrosis induced by chemotherapy was good in 20 and poor in 17. Metastases developed in nine patients. In eight patients in whom doxorubicin assay indicated tumour resistance, chemonecrosis was poor and all developed pulmonary metastases. P-glycoprotein was studied in pre-treatment biopsies and post-treatment resection specimens. Its expression was positive in 16 patients in whom the necrosis induced by chemotherapy was good in four and poor in 12. In 29 patients with negative P-glycoprotein expression, necrosis was good in 16 and poor in 13. The doxorubicin sensitivity had a high correlation with chemonecrosis (P=0.006) and the incidence of metastases (P<0.001). However, P-glycoprotein expression at the time of diagnosis did not correlate statistically with chemonecrosis (P=0.066). Doxorubicin sensitivity prior to treatment is a better determinant of the response to chemotherapy and clinical outcome than is the P-glycoprotein expression.
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PMID:Clinical significance of P-glycoprotein immunohistochemistry and doxorubicin binding assay in patients with osteosarcoma. 1179 58

Apo2L/TRAIL is a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family of cytokines that induces death of cancer cells but not normal cells. Its potent apoptotic activity is mediated through its cell surface death domain-containing receptors, DR4 and DR5. Apo2L/TRAIL interacts also with 3 "decoy" receptors that do not induce apoptosis, DcR1, DcR2, which lack functional death domains, and osteoprotegerin (OPG). The aim of our study was to investigate the cytotoxic activity of Apo2L/TRAIL on established osteogenic sarcoma cell lines (BTK-143, HOS, MG-63, SJSA-1, G-292 and SAOS2) and in primary cultures of normal human bone (NHB) cells. When used alone, Apo2L/TRAIL at 100 ng/ml for 24 hr induced greater than 80% cell death in only 1 (BTK-143) of the 6 osteogenic sarcoma cell lines. In contrast, Apo2L/TRAIL-resistant cells were susceptible to Apo2L/TRAIL-mediated apoptosis in the presence of the anticancer drugs, Doxorubicin (DOX), Cisplatin (CDDP) and Etoposide (ETP) but not Methotrexate (MTX) or Cyclophosphamide (CPM). Importantly, neither Apo2L/TRAIL alone nor in combination with any of these drugs affected primary normal human bone cells under equivalent conditions. Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis, and its augmentation by chemotherapy in the resistant cell lines was mediated through caspase-8 and caspase-3 activation. Furthermore, Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis and its augmentation by chemotherapy was effectively inhibited by caspase-8 zIETD-fmk and caspase-3 zDEVD-fmk protease inhibitors and by the pan-caspase inhibitor zVAD-fmk. The pattern of basal Apo2L/TRAIL receptor mRNA expression, or expression of the intracellular caspase inhibitor FLICE-inhibitory protein, FLIP, could not be readily correlated with resistance or sensitivity to Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis. However, the augmentation of Apo2L/TRAIL effects by chemotherapy was associated with drug-induced up-regulation of death receptors DR4 and DR5 mRNA and protein. No obvious correlation was seen between the expression of OPG mRNA or protein and susceptibility of cells to Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis. Stable over-expression of a dominant negative form of the Fas-associated death domain protein (FADD) in the Apo2L/TRAIL-sensitive BTK-143 cells completely inhibited Apo2L/TRAIL-induced cell death. Our results indicate that chemotherapy and Apo2L/TRAIL act synergistically to kill cancer cells but not normal bone-derived osteoblast-like cells, which has implications for future therapy of osteosarcoma.
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PMID:Chemotherapeutic agents sensitize osteogenic sarcoma cells, but not normal human bone cells, to Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis. 1199 38

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy potentially can have an adverse effect on bone healing in distraction osteogenesis whether given before or concomitant with distraction osteogenesis. It was the purpose of the current study to determine if administration of chemotherapy before distraction adversely affects bone generation in distraction osteogenesis. Twenty-four adult dairy goats were divided randomly into two groups: a control group having distraction osteogenesis only and a chemotherapy group, receiving one course of Adriamycin before distraction osteogenesis. The animals were sacrificed at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, or 24 weeks and the lengthened tibias were evaluated by radiologic studies, biomechanical testing, and histologic analysis. All goats receiving chemotherapy showed systemic adverse effects. In a multifactorial analysis of the lengthened bones, there was no statistically significant difference between the control goats versus goats that received chemotherapy; indicating that there was no sustained inhibitory effect on bone formation by the chemotherapy. These findings suggest that a prior course of chemotherapy with Adriamycin may not be a contraindication to limb lengthening for limb salvage after resection of an osteosarcoma.
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PMID:Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on distraction osteogenesis in the goat model. 1518 75

The antiemetic effectiveness of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists in combination with dexamethasone in patients receiving short-term infusion chemotherapy has been well demonstrated. Less information is available about the efficacy of the same antiemetic combination in patients treated with regimens of chemotherapy in which the drugs are delivered in continuous infusion of several hours. The purpose of this study was to report the effectiveness of a double administration of antiemetic drugs in patients treated with strong emesis-inducing drugs for several days. In this study, 19 male and 13 female patients with osteosarcoma, ages 9 to 45 years, treated with chemotherapy, received intravenous tropisetron 5 mg plus dexamethasone 8 mg every 12 hours during the first two cycles of the preoperative treatment: cisplatin 120 mg/m2 over 48 hours followed by Adriamycin 75 mg/m2 delivered in 24 hours and continuous infusion of ifosfamide 15 g/m2 over 120 hours. The assessment of the antiemetic efficacy was performed three times every day: from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, from 4:00 pm to 12:00 am, and from 12:00 am to 8:00 am. The patients were followed from the beginning of the treatment until 2 hours after its end, when they were discharged from hospital. Complete protection from emesis was obtained in 80% of the 256 days of treatment: 81% during the first cycle (cisplatin 120 mg/m2 in 48 hours followed by Adriamycin 75 mg/m2 delivered in 24 hours) and 79% during the second cycle (continuous infusion of ifosfamide 15 g/m2 in 120 hours). In both cycles, complete protection declined from the first to the last day of treatment (from 100% to 62% during the first cycle and from 100% to 63% during the second cycle). These results indicate that when chemotherapy is administered in a protracted infusion, higher doses of antiemetic agents are necessary to achieve acceptable antiemetic activity.
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PMID:Tropisetron and dexamethasone administered twice daily for the prevention of acute emesis in patients treated with continuous infusion of Cisplatin-Doxorubicin and high-dose Ifosfamide over 48, 24, and 120 hours. 1288 24

Doxorubicin (DOX) is a common anticancer drug. The mechanisms of DOX induced apoptosis and the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptotic signaling were investigated in p53-null human osteosarcoma Saos-2 cells. Accumulation of pre-G1 phase cells and induction of DNA laddering, which are the hallmarks of apoptosis, were detected in cells at 48 h upon DOX treatment. Furthermore, DOX increased the intracellular hydrogen peroxide and superoxide levels, followed by mitochondrial membrane depolarization, cytochrome c release, caspase-3 activation, prior to DNA laddering in Saos-2 cells. In addition, DOX treatment also upregulated Bax and downregulated Bcl-2 levels in the cells. The role of ROS in DOX induced cell death was confirmed by the suppression effect of catalase on DOX induced ROS formation, mitochondrial cytochrome c release, procaspase-3 cleavage, and apoptosis in Saos-2 cells. The catalase treatment however only suppressed DOX induced Bax upregulation but had no effect on Bcl-2 downregulation. Results from the present study suggested that ROS might act as the signal molecules for DOX induced cell death and the process is still functional even in the absence of p53.
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PMID:Reactive oxygen species mediate doxorubicin induced p53-independent apoptosis. 1289 28

Toxicosis associated with doxorubicin and cisplatin administration starting either 2 or 10 days after limb amputation for osteosarcoma was examined retrospectively in dogs. The purpose was to determine whether dosage and timing of chemotherapy affected rates of toxicosis after administration of the 1st treatment. Records of 100 dogs with appendicular osteosarcoma without evidence of metastases or concurrent disease were examined. Dogs received chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cisplatin every 3 weeks for 3 treatments starting 2 days (n = 51) or 10 days (n = 49) after amputation. The dosage of cisplatin was 60 mg/m2 and was given with 6-hour saline diuresis and butorphanol. Doxorubicin was given at 12.5-25 mg/ml during fluid administration. Hematologic data were collected before and weekly after treatment. Client interviews were conducted to assess gastrointestinal toxicosis during the interval between treatments. The reported toxicoses were graded on a scale of 0 to 4. Dogs receiving 25 mg/m2 of doxorubicin experienced greater rates of grade 4 toxicity (67%; n = 6) than dogs in groups receiving 12.5-20 mg/m2 of doxorubicin (< or = 25%; n = 94, P = .03). Dogs in the Day 2 group experienced greater rates (35%) of grade 4 toxicity than dogs in the Day 10 group (12%, P = .007). We concluded that chemotherapy administered 2 days after surgery produced an unacceptable level of toxicoses. except at greatly reduced dosages, and that even with a delay of treatment, 25 mg/m2 of doxorubicin, when given in combination with cisplatin at 60 mg/m2, was too toxic for routine use.
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PMID:Cisplatin and doxorubicin toxicosis in dogs with osteosarcoma. 1452 33

A 16-year-old girl with a distal femur osteosarcoma became pain-free with the first treatment of methotrexate 12.5 g/m(2) and folinic acid 760 mg/m(2). She was inadvertently given 1275 mg folinic acid after the third dose. Four days later, pain and swelling recurred. Appreciating that this was "over rescue" rather than drug resistance led to the successful use of a further 8 doses of high-dose methotrexate when a suboptimal response was achieved with cisplatinum, Adriamycin, and ifosfamide. This is the first time "over rescue" has been documented in humans from high-dose folinic acid after methotrexate.
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PMID:Progression of osteosarcoma after high-dose methotrexate: over-rescue by folinic acid. 1457 26


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