Serum proinflammatory cytokine response in patients with advanced liver tumors following selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with (90)yttriummicrospheres
Jk. Wickremesekera et al., Serum proinflammatory cytokine response in patients with advanced liver tumors following selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with (90)yttriummicrospheres, INT J RAD O, 49(4), 2001, pp. 1015-1021
Citations number
48
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology ,Nuclear Medicine & Imaging","Onconogenesis & Cancer Research
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
Purpose: To determine the changes in serum levels of proinflammatory cytoki
nes within 48 h after selective internal radiation treatment (SIRT) in pati
ents with advanced liver cancers,
Methods and Materials: Twenty-eight patients with advanced liver cancers wh
o underwent SIRT were recruited into the study. Serum levels of interleukin
(IL)-1 beta, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and in
terferon-gamma were determined prior to and 3, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h after SI
RT, Their changes were correlated to adverse reactions following treatment
as assessed by constitutional symptom scores, and routine blood and liver f
unction tests at 24 and 48 h post-SIRT and falls in serum carcinoembryonic
antigen (CEA) level 1 month post-SIRT,
Results: Serum IL-6 levels were significantly increased at 24 (p less than
or equal to 0.05) and 48 h (p less than or equal to 0.01) post-SIRT, In con
trast, there was no significant change in the serum levels of other cytokin
es studied. The increase in serum IL-6 at 24 h post-SIRT was significantly
correlated with the changes in serum alanine transferase (p less than or eq
ual to 0.05) and C-reactive protein (p less than or equal to 0.001) levels
and total Leukocyte counts (p less than or equal to 0.001) at both 24 and 4
8 h post-SIRT, Changes in serum IL-6 level were also significantly correlat
ed to the rise of serum aspartate transaminase levels at 48 h post-SIRT (p
less than or equal to 0.001), but not with the scores of constitutional sym
ptoms or the changes of serum CEA at 1 month post-SIRT,
Conclusion: Absence of significant changes in most of proinflammatory cytok
ines studied confirmed that SIRT is a reasonably safe and well-tolerated tr
eatment with minimal side-effect from the point of view of cytokine-related
inflammation, The correlation of serum IL-6 changes with several liver enz
ymes and C-reactive protein but not with clinical symptom scores or serum C
EA levels suggests that the rise in IL-6 levels in the first 48 h following
SIRT most likely reflect normal liver cell damage rather than tumor cell d
amage, (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc.