Vascular responses to radiotherapy and androgen-deprivation therapy in experimental prostate cancer

Radiation Oncology

Dag R Olsen¹  Laure Marignol⁵  Anne H Ree⁷  Heidi Lyng³  Johan Bussink⁶  Albert J van der Kogel⁴  Lars TG Mikalsen²  Kathrine Røe⁷ 

[1] Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, PO Box 4953 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway;Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA;Prostate Molecular Oncology Research Group, Academic Unit of Clinical and Molecular Oncology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, St. James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;Department of Radiation Oncology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Oncology, Akershus University Hospital, Lorenskog, Norway

关键词: Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI;    Immunohistochemistry;    Radiotherapy;    Androgen-deprivation therapy;    Prostate cancer;   

Others  :  1160841
DOI  :  10.1186/1748-717X-7-75

 received in 2012-02-01, accepted in 2012-04-26,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Radiotherapy (RT) and androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) are standard treatments for advanced prostate cancer (PC). Tumor vascularization is recognized as an important physiological feature likely to impact on both RT and ADT response, and this study therefore aimed to characterize the vascular responses to RT and ADT in experimental PC.

Methods

Using mice implanted with CWR22 PC xenografts, vascular responses to RT and ADT by castration were visualized in vivo by DCE MRI, before contrast-enhancement curves were analyzed both semi-quantitatively and by pharmacokinetic modeling. Extracted image parameters were correlated to the results from ex vivo quantitative fluorescent immunohistochemical analysis (qIHC) of tumor vascularization (9 F1), perfusion (Hoechst 33342), and hypoxia (pimonidazole), performed on tissue sections made from tumors excised directly after DCE MRI.

Results

Compared to untreated (Ctrl) tumors, an improved and highly functional vascularization was detected in androgen-deprived (AD) tumors, reflected by increases in DCE MRI parameters and by increased number of vessels (VN), vessel density ( VD), and vessel area fraction ( VF) from qIHC. Although total hypoxic fractions ( HF) did not change, estimated acute hypoxia scores ( AHS) – the proportion of hypoxia staining within 50 μm from perfusion staining – were increased in AD tumors compared to in Ctrl tumors. Five to six months after ADT renewed castration-resistant (CR) tumor growth appeared with an even further enhanced tumor vascularization. Compared to the large vascular changes induced by ADT, RT induced minor vascular changes. Correlating DCE MRI and qIHC parameters unveiled the semi-quantitative parameters area under curve ( AUC) from initial time-points to strongly correlate with VD and VF, whereas estimation of vessel size ( VS) by DCE MRI required pharmacokinetic modeling. HF was not correlated to any DCE MRI parameter, however, AHS may be estimated after pharmacokinetic modeling. Interestingly, such modeling also detected tumor necrosis very strongly.

Conclusions

DCE MRI reliably allows non-invasive assessment of tumors’ vascular function. The findings of increased tumor vascularization after ADT encourage further studies into whether these changes are beneficial for combined RT, or if treatment with anti-angiogenic therapy may be a strategy to improve the therapeutic efficacy of ADT in advanced PC.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Røe et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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