Asian Pacific J Cancer Prev, 13, 923-926
IntroductionCervical cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer. Surgery or radiotherapy can achieve satisfactory effect for early stage cervical cancer, while in the late stage (II b-IV a period) the main treatment therapy is radiation. At present, many studies all over the world reported that radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy can improve the survival rate of patients with cervical cancer. Concurrent chemoradiation, using cisplatin-based chemotheraphy (either cisplatin alone or cisplatin/5-fluorouracil), is the treatment of choice for stages Ib-IV a disease based on the results of many randomized clinical trials. (Lu et al., 2003;Dubay et al., 2004;Eifel et al., 2004; Duenas-Gonzale et al., 2011). These trials have shown that the use of Concurrent chemoradiation results in a 30%-50% decrease in the risk of death compared to RT alone. Although the optimal Concurrent chemotheraphy regimen to use with RT requires further investigation, these trails clearly established a role for Concurrent cisplatin-based chemoradiation. However, cervical cancer is not always sensitive to Chemoradiotherapy. As one of the malignant tumor, the similar angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis happen in cervical cancer, and the density of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels is related with the malignancy and biological characteristics of the tumor. Therefore, it sounds reasonable to suppress tumor development by way of suppressing angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis. Jia et al. (2009)
AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the early outcome of Endostar combined with chemoradiotherapy for advanced cervical cancer. Fifty-two cases (FIGO Ⅱb to Ⅳa) were divided randomly into two groups, receiving chemoradiotherapy alone (CRT group) and Endostar combined with chemoradiotherapy (CRT+E group). For the patients in the CRT+E group, Endostar was administered daily with the dosage of 7.5 mg/m 2 , and cisplatin was administered weekly with the dosage of 20 mg/m 2 during the radiation. The regimens lasted for 4 weeks with no difference in chemoradiotherapy between the two groups. The early outcome complete remission rate was 73.1%, partial remission rate was 23.1% and the total response rate was 96.2% in CRT+E group, a significnat improvement on the 34.6%, 42.3% and 76.9%, respectively, in the CRT group. One year survive rates were 100% and 84.6% in the CRT+E group and CRT groups, the difference being significant. Endostar combined with chemoradiotherapy can improve the early outcome of the advanced cervical cancer, and adverse effects were not encountered.