title: A phase-II trial of recombinant interleukin-2 and 5-FU chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
abstract: Seven patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have been treated with a regimen involving an 120-hour continuous infusion of rIL-2, 3 x 10(6) mu/m2. Entry restrictions included a Karnofsky index of greater than or equal to 80%, and a measurable lesion. One patient died of peritonitis secondary to bowel perforation at the site of the unresected tumour. One patient abandoned treatment following a pulmonary embolism during the first rIL-2 infusion. Other side effects included, pyrexia, rigors, nausea, hypotension, oliguria, weight gain, thrombocytopenia, neuropsychiatric symptoms and prerenal renal failure. Two patients have shown a greater than 50% regression in the size of their tumours and 3 have stable disease. The use of 'humanized' monoclonal antibodies together with mononuclear cells from patients receiving IL-2 infusions may provide a useful way of killing tumour cells which are resistant to lysis by LAK cells.
authors.affiliation: Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, U.K.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Hamblin
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Inzani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sadullah
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Stevenson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Williamson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van der Plas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Franks
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D005472:Fluorouracil