Title |
High dose lansoprazole combined with metronomic chemotherapy: a phase I/II study in companion animals with spontaneously occurring tumors
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Published in |
Journal of Translational Medicine, August 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/s12967-014-0225-y |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Enrico P Spugnini, Sabrina Buglioni, Francesca Carocci, Menicagli Francesco, Bruno Vincenzi, Maurizio Fanciulli, Stefano Fais |
Abstract |
The treatment of human cancer has been seriously hampered for decades by resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. A very efficient mechanism of tumor resistance to drugs is the proton pumps-mediated acidification of tumor microenvironment. Metronomic chemotherapy has shown efficacy in adjuvant fashion as well as in the treatment of pets with advanced disease. Moreover, we have shown in veterinary clinical settings that pre-treatment with proton-pumps inhibitors (PPI) increases tumor responsiveness to chemotherapeutics. In this study pet with spontaneously occurring cancer have been recruited to be treated by a combination of metronomic chemotherapy and high dose PPIs and their responses have been matched to those of a historical control of ten patients treated with metronomic chemotherapy alone. |
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