Quantifying antivascular effects of monoclonal antibodies to vascular endothelial growth factor : insights from imaging

PURPOSE: Little is known concerning the onset, duration, and magnitude of direct therapeutic effects of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapies. Such knowledge would help guide the rational development of targeted therapeutics from bench to bedside and optimize use of imaging technologies that quantify tumor function in early-phase clinical trials.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Preclinical studies were done using ex vivo microcomputed tomography and in vivo ultrasound imaging to characterize tumor vasculature in a human HM-7 colorectal xenograft model treated with the anti-VEGF antibody G6-31. Clinical evaluation was by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in 10 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with bevacizumab.

RESULTS: Microcomputed tomography experiments showed reduction in perfused vessels within 24 to 48 h of G6-31 drug administration (P <or= 0.005). Ultrasound imaging confirmed reduced tumor blood volume within the same time frame (P = 0.048). Consistent with the preclinical results, reductions in enhancing fraction and fractional plasma volume were detected in patient colorectal cancer metastases within 48 h after a single dose of bevacizumab that persisted throughout one cycle of therapy. These effects were followed by resolution of edema (P = 0.0023) and tumor shrinkage in 9 of 26 tumors at day 12.

CONCLUSION: These data suggest that VEGF-specific inhibition induces rapid structural and functional effects with downstream significant antitumor activity within one cycle of therapy. This finding has important implications for the design of early-phase clinical trials that incorporate physiologic imaging. The study shows how animal data help interpret clinical imaging data, an important step toward the validation of image biomarkers of tumor structure and function.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Nov 1;15(21):6473-5. - PMID 19861463

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15(2009), 21 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 6674-82

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

O'Connor, James P B [VerfasserIn]
Carano, Richard A D [VerfasserIn]
Clamp, Andrew R [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Jed [VerfasserIn]
Ho, Calvin C K [VerfasserIn]
Jackson, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Parker, Geoff J M [VerfasserIn]
Rose, Chris J [VerfasserIn]
Peale, Franklin V [VerfasserIn]
Friesenhahn, Michel [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell, Claire L [VerfasserIn]
Watson, Yvonne [VerfasserIn]
Roberts, Caleb [VerfasserIn]
Hope, Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Cheung, Sue [VerfasserIn]
Reslan, Hani Bou [VerfasserIn]
Go, Mary Ann T [VerfasserIn]
Pacheco, Glenn J [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiumin [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Tim C [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Sarajane [VerfasserIn]
Buonaccorsi, Giovanni A [VerfasserIn]
Davies, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Hasan, Jurjees [VerfasserIn]
Thornton, Paula [VerfasserIn]
del Puerto, Olivia [VerfasserIn]
Ferrara, Napoleone [VerfasserIn]
van Bruggen, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Jayson, Gordon C [VerfasserIn]

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Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Bevacizumab
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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Date Completed 29.12.2009

Date Revised 28.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Nov 1;15(21):6473-5. - PMID 19861463

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-0731

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM192344781