Actinium-225 dendrimer-radioconjugates combined with low-dose standard-of-care chemotherapy: site-independent treatment of triple negative breast cancer metastases
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PURPOSE
Metastatic triple negative breast cancer (mTNBC) is incurable largely due to the development of drug resistance, the lack of selective cell targeting, and/or limitations in tumor drug delivery that vary depending on the different (metastatic) tumor locations.
METHODS
The potential of a single type of systemic, targeted alpha-particle therapy (TAT) was investigated for addressing the above challenges of TNBC tumors implanted at different anatomic sites in mice. Actinium-225 dendrimer-radioconjugates alone, and/or after pretreatment with low-dose standard-of-care cisplatin, were assessed in vitro and on immune-competent 4T1-Balb/c mouse models with tumors implanted intracranially, orthotopically or subcutaneously.
RESULTS
In vitro , TAT’s efficacy was enhanced by cisplatin . In vivo , treatment was initiated well after tumors had grown (V to = 39 ± 14 mm 3 in the intracranial model, and V to =100mm 3 in the orthotopic and subcutaneous models). Across all tumor implantation sites, a unified correlation was observed between animal mean survival and the dendrimer-delivered tumor absorbed doses, which were selectively increased by low-dose cisplatin pretreatment . Importantly, in all animal models, the mean survival following systemic treatment with both modalities was significantly longer vs. each modality alone and/or vs. no treatment, at injected doses that did not cause long-term (10-month) toxicities in tumor-free mice.
CONCLUSION
Systemically-injected dendrimer-delivered TAT, combined with low-dose cisplatin pretreatment , can safely extend survival independent of mTNBC tumors’ anatomic site, potentially presenting a single type of therapy to simultaneously treat multi-site mTNBC.
