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Clinical applications of TNF-alpha in cancer
F J Lejeune1, C Rüegg, D Liénard
1Centre Pluridisciplinaire d'Oncologie, Centre Hospitalier UniversitaireVaudois (CHUV), Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. Ferdy.Lejeune@chuv.hospvd.ch
Current Opinion in Immunology
|October 31, 1998
Abstract:
High-dose TNF-alpha plus chemotherapy, with or without IFN-gamma, can be safely administered regionally through isolated limb perfusion. This procedure produced between 70% and 80% complete remission in cases of in transit melanoma metastases and between 25% and 36% complete remission in cases of inextirpable soft-tissue sarcomas. Dual targeting is involved; TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma induce apoptosis of angiogenic endothelium, while melphalan induces apoptosis of tumour cells.