Combined radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and maltose tetrapalmitate immunotherapy in the treatment of 4'dimethylaminoazobenzene-induced liver cancer (original) (raw)

Anticancer research

Abstract

Therapeutic effects of radiotherapy (R), chemotherapy, and maltose tetrapalmitate (MTP) immunotherapy alone and in combinations were tried against 4' dimethylaminoazobenzene (DAB) induced primary liver cancer in Wistar rats in three separate protocols. Rats were fed a low protein synthetic diet containing 0.06% DAB for 90-120 days. Around 90 days, liver cancers developed in all the animals. In the first protocol, animals were either left untreated or treated with cyclophosphamide (Cy), MTP (i.p. or oral) and Cy plus oral MTP. Rats in the MTP (i.p.) group maintained a steady liver weight but neither Cy nor Cy + MTP influenced the survival time or liver weight. In the second protocol, R as well as a 3-drug combination at 2 dose levels were tried alone and with MTP before or soon after cessation of DAB feeding. Survival times were decreased by R and chemotherapy due to combined toxicities of DAB and treatments and were partially restored by MTP. In the third protocol, MTP, R, and C...

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