Local interleukin 2 therapy of mouse mammary tumors of various immunogenicities.
The local and systemic therapeutic effects of multiple injections of recombinant human interleukin 2 (IL-2), at doses of 5,000 to 100,000 units each, were tested against intramammary implants of 12 syngeneic C3H mouse mammary tumors of various immunogenicities. Among 5 tumors with transplantation-type immunogenicity and with mononuclear leukocyte infiltration, 4 tumors were affected by IL-2 therapy. A fast-growing, moderately immunogenic tumor was not affected. Among 7 tumors which did not display transplantation-type immunogenicity, 4 tumors did, nevertheless, attract mononuclear leukocytes. Among these 4 tumors, the 2 slowest growing tumors were affected by IL-2 therapy. Local and systemic therapeutic effects resulted from peritumor IL-2 injections, but not from injections 2 cm from a tumor. The results indicate that the therapeutic effectiveness of IL-2 depends on the ability of a tumor to attract IL-2 responsive immune effector cells and that therapeutic effectiveness is reduced by faster tumor growth.
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Department of Experimental Pathology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H
D007376:Interleukin-2