title: Combining radiation with oxaliplatin: a review of experimental results.
abstract: Oxaliplatin is integrated in treatment strategies against a variety of cancers including chemoradiation protocols against gastrointestinal, especially rectal cancers. Solid biological data with respect to radiosensitizing activity of oxaliplatin are still rare. This review is based on in vitro and experimental in vivo data concerning the combination of oxaliplatin and radiation published until July 2007. Taking either cell viability or clonogenic survival as an endpoint all reported on oxaliplatin-induced radiosensitization, and enhancement ratios ranged from 1.1 to 2.2. In vivo, enhanced tumor growth delay after combined oxaliplatin and radiation treatment was also reported. Therefore, oxaliplatin should be considered a potent radiosensitizer, although the mechanisms causing radiosensitizing properties of oxaliplatin have not been studied in detail. Herein, they are discussed with respect to apoptosis induction, p53-related signalling, cell cycle control, and DNA-repair.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Abteilung Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rave-Fränk
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pradier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D017209:Apoptosis; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000187:drug effects; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000077150:Oxaliplatin; D011838:Radiation-Sensitizing Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds; D011838:Radiation-Sensitizing Agents; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53; D000077150:Oxaliplatin; D002945:Cisplatin