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In der vorliegenden retrospektiven Studie wurde das Metastasierungsverhalten von Mundhöhlenkarzinomen des Krankengutes der Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie der Universität Würzburg aus den Jahren 1985 bis 1999 bei unterschiedlichen Therapiekonzepten untersucht. 774 Patienten wurden in die Untersuchung einbezogen. Das Durchschnittsalter der Patienten betrug 59 Jahre. Das Verhältnis von männlichen zu weiblichen Patienten lag bei 4:1. 36,3 Prozent (280) der Tumoren lagen im Bereich des Mundbodens, 15,9 Prozent (123) in der Unterlippe, 13,7 Prozent (106) im Bereich des Oropharynx, 12,4 Prozent (96) im Unterkiefer-Alveolarfortsatz, 10,2 Prozent (79) in der Zunge, 7,1 Prozent (55) in Oberkiefer und Gaumen, 3,1 Prozent (24) in der Wangenschleimhaut und 1,2 Prozent (9) in der Oberlippe. Eine alleinige chirurgische Tumorresektion wurde bei 60,1 Prozent (465) der Patienten durchgeführt. Eine chirurgische Therapie mit präoperative Radiatio (40 Gy) erhielten 1,3 Prozent (10) der Patienten, eine chirurgische Therapie mit kombinierter präoperativer Radio-Chemo-Therapie (40 Gy) erhielten 25,5 Prozent (197). 7,4 Prozent (57) der Patienten erhielten eine alleinige Radio-Chemo-Therapie, 4,9 Prozent (38) eine Radiatio solo. Postoperativ wurde eine Bestrahlung bei 5,0 Prozent (39) und eine Chemotherapie bei 0,3 Prozent (2) der Patienten durchgeführt. 21,0 Prozent (163) aller Patienten erhielten eine ipsilaterale Lymphknotenausräumung, 22,4 Prozent (173) eine bilaterale Lymphbahnausräumung. 50,6 Prozent (170) der Patienten, deren Halsweichteile ausgeräumt wurden, erhielten ipsilateral eine radikale Neck dissection, 21,4 Prozent (72) eine konservierende Neck dissection, 28,0 Prozent (94) eine suprahyoidale Ausräumung. 72,5 Prozent (561) der Patienten blieben innerhalb der Nachbeobachtungszeit (durchschnittlich 2,9 Jahre) rezidiv- bzw. metastasenfrei. Ein Lokalrezidiv entwickelten 14,9 Prozent (115) der Patienten. Metastasen entwickelten innerhalb der Nachbeobachtungszeit 16,5 Prozent (128) der Patienten: 68,8 Prozent (88) regionäre Metastasen, 31,2 Prozent (40) Fernmetastasen. Einen statistisch signifikanten Einfluss (p<0,05) auf die Metastasenhäufigkeit hatte die Lokalisation des Primärtumors (26,3 Prozent Metastasen bei Tumoren im Bereich der Wangenschleimhaut, 24,3 Prozent bei Mundbodenkarzinomen, 23,6 Prozent bei Oropharynxkarzinomen, 20,0 Prozent bei Oberkieferkarzinomen, 15,9 Prozent bei Zungenkarzinomen, 13,4 Prozent bei Karzinomen des Unterkiefer-Alveolarfortsatzes, 7,0 Prozent bei Lippenkarzinomen und 0,0 Prozent Metastasen bei Oberlippenkarzinomen). Wurde eine alleinige Tumorresektion durchgeführt, traten bei 9,7 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen auf. Wurde die Behandlung durch eine präoperative Radio-Chemo-Therapie erweitert, traten bei 35,0 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen auf. Wurde zusätzlich noch eine postoperative Radiatio durchgeführt, entwickelten 38,5 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen. Nach Durchführung einer alleinigen Radiatio mit 70 Gy traten bei 11,1 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen auf, nach kombinierter Radio-Chemo-Therapie (70 Gy) bei 20,5 Prozent der Patienten. Histologisch positive Resekatränder erhöhten die Metastasenwahrscheinlichkeit statistisch signifikant von 17,0 Prozent auf 45,7 Prozent. Von der Art der Lymphbahnausräumung (ohne Berücksichtigung adjuvanter Therapien) ist die Metastasenwahrscheinlichkeit statistisch signifikant abhängig. Nach Durchführung einer alleinigen ipsilateralen radikalen Neck dissection zeigte sich eine Metastasierungsrate von 25,6 Prozent. Wurde statt dessen eine konservierende Neck dissection durchgeführt, traten bei 40,0 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen auf. Wurde die ipsilaterale radikale Neck dissection mit einer kontralateralen suprahyoidalen Ausräumung kombiniert, traten bei 37,1 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen auf. Nach ipsilateraler konservierender Neck dissection und kontralateraler suprahyoidaler Ausräumung zeigten sich bei 55,3 Prozent der Patienten Metastasen. Die Inzidenz kontralateraler Metastasen lag bei alleiniger ipsilateraler Behandlung bei 34,3 Prozent, bei zusätzlicher kontralateraler suprahyoidaler Ausräumung bei 30,2 Prozent (trotz der hier zumeist vorliegenden ungünstigeren Prognose durch größere Primärtumoren oder deren Lage im Bereich der Körpermedianen).
Metastasis is the cause of death in 90% of cancer-related deaths in men. Melanoma and Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) are both tumour types with poor prognosis, lacking appropriate therapeutic possibilities, not least because of their high rate of metastasis. Thus understanding the process of metastasis might unravel therapeutic targets for developing further therapeutic strategies. The generation of a transgenic mouse model expressing B-RafV600E in melanocytes, a mutation that is found in about 60% of all melanoma, would result in an ideal tool to study melanoma progression and metastasis. In this work, a doxycycline-inducible system was constructed for expression of B-RafV600E and transgenic animals were generated, but the expression system has to be improved, since this strategy didn’t give rise to any viable, transgene carrying mice. Furthermore, since it was shown in the work of others that the metastatic behavior of tumour cell lines could be reversed by an embryonic microenvironment and the influence of a tumourigenic microenvironment on melanocytes lead to the acquisition of tumour cell-like characteristics, the question arose, whether B-Raf is as important in melanocyte development as it is in melanoma progression. In this work, the embryonal melanocyte development in B-Raf-deficient and wildtype mouse embryos was examined and there were no differences observed in the localization and number of neural crest stem cells as well as in the localization of the dopachrome-tautomerase positive melanoblasts in the embryos and in cultured neural tube explants. The expression of oncogenic C-Raf in lung epithelial cells has yielded a model for NSCLC giving rise to adenomas lacking spontaneous progression or metastasis. The co-expression of c-Myc in the same cells accelerates the tumour development and gives rise to liver and lymphnode metastases. The expression of c-Myc alone in lung epithelial cells leads to late tumour development with incomplete penetrance. A mutation screen in this work resulted in the observation that a secondary mutation in KRas or LKB1 is necessary for tumour formation in the c-Myc single transgenic animals and suggested metastasis as an early event, since the corresponding metastases of the mutation-prone primary lung tumours were negative for the observed mutations. Furthermore, in this work it was shown that the expression of chicken c-Myc in a non-metastatic NSCLC cell line leads to metastatic clones, showing that c-Myc is sufficient to induce metastasis. Additionally a panel of metastasis markers was identified, that might serve as diagnostic markers in the future.
Zellmigration ist essentiell für die Invasion und Metastasierung maligner Tumore. Neben der Bewegung von Einzelzellen zeigen Tumore sowohl epithe¬lialen als auch mesenchymalen Ursprungs auch kollektive Migration und Invasion multizellulärer Zellverbände, die sich unter Beibehaltung von Zell-Zell-Adhäsionen koordiniert als Gruppe bewegen. Ziel der Arbeit war, primäre humane Melanomexplantate mittels organotypischer Kultur in 3D Kollagenmatrices einzusetzen, um mittels Zeit-raffermikroskopie und experimentellen Blockadestrategien die zellulären und molekularen Grundlagen kollektiver Migration darzustellen, insbesondere die Bedeutung von Zell-Matrix-Interaktionen und Integrinen. In 3D Explantatkulturen bildeten primäre Melanomexplantate reproduzierbar Invasionszonen und sich ablösende und kollektiv wandernde Zellcluster aus. Diese zeichneten sich durch eine ausgeprägte Polarität mit motiler Vorderfront mit zugartig reorientierten Kollagenfasern und nachgezogenem hinteren Teil der Gruppen aus, vergleichbar der Asymmetrie haptokinetisch migrierender Fibroblasten. β1 Integrine zeigten ein heterogenes Verteilungsmuster mit Fokalisierung an Zell-Matrix-Interaktionen vor allem an der Vorderfront und linearer Anordnung entlang der Zell-Zell-Grenzen. Adhäsionsblockierende anti- β1 Integrin-Antikörper bewirkten nahezu vollständige Hemmung der kollektiven Migration, mit Verlust der Zellgruppenpolarität und Migrationspersistenz. Nach Integrinblockade zerfielen Zellverbände infolge Loslösung von Einzelzellen, die sich mittels β1 Integrin-unabhängiger, amöboider Migration durch die Kollagenmatrix bewegten. Der Übergang von β1 Integrin-abhängiger, kollektiver Migration zu amöboider Einzelzellwanderung (kollektiv-amöboide Transition) ist ein Beispiel für die Plastizität von Tumorzellwanderung, die in Anpassung an das Milieu einen Wechsel der Migrationsstrategie erlaubt. Die Plastizität der Tumorzellmigration muss bei der Entwicklung therapeutischer Konzepte, die auf Hemmung von Tumorinvasion und -metastasierung abzielen, berücksichtigt werden.
Recently, several classifiers that combine primary tumor data, like gene expression data, and secondary data sources, such as protein-protein interaction networks, have been proposed for predicting outcome in breast cancer. In these approaches, new composite features are typically constructed by aggregating the expression levels of several genes. The secondary data sources are employed to guide this aggregation. Although many studies claim that these approaches improve classification performance over single genes classifiers, the gain in performance is difficult to assess. This stems mainly from the fact that different breast cancer data sets and validation procedures are employed to assess the performance. Here we address these issues by employing a large cohort of six breast cancer data sets as benchmark set and by performing an unbiased evaluation of the classification accuracies of the different approaches. Contrary to previous claims, we find that composite feature classifiers do not outperform simple single genes classifiers. We investigate the effect of (1) the number of selected features; (2) the specific gene set from which features are selected; (3) the size of the training set and (4) the heterogeneity of the data set on the performance of composite feature and single genes classifiers. Strikingly, we find that randomization of secondary data sources, which destroys all biological information in these sources, does not result in a deterioration in performance of composite feature classifiers. Finally, we show that when a proper correction for gene set size is performed, the stability of single genes sets is similar to the stability of composite feature sets. Based on these results there is currently no reason to prefer prognostic classifiers based on composite features over single genes classifiers for predicting outcome in breast cancer.
Background: Recent data suggest that cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role in cancer, as these cells possess enhanced tumor-forming capabilities and are responsible for relapses after apparently curative therapies have been undertaken. Hence, novel cancer therapies will be needed to test for both tumor regression and CSC targeting. The use of oncolytic vaccinia virus (VACV) represents an attractive anti-tumor approach and is currently under evaluation in clinical trials. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate whether VACV does kill CSCs that are resistant to irradiation and chemotherapy.
Methods: Cancer stem-like cells were identified and separated from the human breast cancer cell line GI-101A by virtue of increased aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) activity as assessed by the ALDEFLUOR assay and cancer stem cell-like features such as chemo-resistance, irradiation-resistance and tumor-initiating were confirmed in cell culture and in animal models. VACV treatments were applied to both ALDEFLUOR-positive cells in cell culture and in xenograft tumors derived from these cells. Moreover, we identified and isolated CD44\(^+\)CD24\(^+\)ESA\(^+\) cells from GI-101A upon an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). These cells were similarly characterized both in cell culture and in animal models.
Results: We demonstrated for the first time that the oncolytic VACV GLV-1h68 strain replicated more efficiently in cells with higher ALDH1 activity that possessed stem cell-like features than in cells with lower ALDH1 activity. GLV-1h68 selectively colonized and eventually eradicated xenograft tumors originating from cells with higher ALDH1 activity. Furthermore, GLV-1h68 also showed preferential replication in CD44\(^+\)CD24\(^+\)ESA\(^+\) cells derived from GI-101A upon an EMT induction as well as in xenograft tumors originating from these cells that were more tumorigenic than CD44\(^+\)CD24\(^-\)ESA\(^+\) cells.
Conclusions: Taken together, our findings indicate that GLV-1h68 efficiently replicates and kills cancer stem-like cells. Thus, GLV-1h68 may become a promising agent for eradicating both primary and metastatic tumors, especially tumors harboring cancer stem-like cells that are resistant to chemo and/or radiotherapy and may be responsible for recurrence of tumors.
Background: Despite availability of efficient treatment regimens for early stage colorectal cancer, treatment regimens for late stage colorectal cancer are generally not effective and thus need improvement. Oncolytic virotherapy using replication-competent vaccinia virus (VACV) strains is a promising new strategy for therapy of a variety of human cancers.
Methods: Oncolytic efficacy of replication-competent vaccinia virus GLV-1h68 was analyzed in both, cell cultures and subcutaneous xenograft tumor models.
Results: In this study we demonstrated for the first time that the replication-competent recombinant VACV GLV-1h68 efficiently infected, replicated in, and subsequently lysed various human colorectal cancer lines (Colo 205, HCT-15, HCT-116, HT-29, and SW-620) derived from patients at all four stages of disease. Additionally, in tumor xenograft models in athymic nude mice, a single injection of intravenously administered GLV-1h68 significantly inhibited tumor growth of two different human colorectal cell line tumors (Duke’s type A-stage HCT-116 and Duke’s type C-stage SW-620), significantly improving survival compared to untreated mice. Expression of the viral marker gene ruc-gfp allowed for real-time analysis of the virus infection in cell cultures and in mice. GLV-1h68 treatment was well-tolerated in all animals and viral replication was confined to the tumor. GLV-1h68 treatment elicited a significant up-regulation of murine immune-related antigens like IFN-γ, IP-10, MCP-1, MCP-3, MCP-5, RANTES and TNF-γ and a greater infiltration of macrophages and NK cells in tumors as compared to untreated controls.
Conclusion: The anti-tumor activity observed against colorectal cancer cells in these studies was a result of direct viral oncolysis by GLV-1h68 and inflammation-mediated innate immune responses. The therapeutic effects occurred in tumors regardless of the stage of disease from which the cells were derived. Thus, the recombinant vaccinia virus GLV-1h68 has the potential to treat colorectal cancers independently of the stage of progression.
Multiple activities are ascribed to the cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in health and disease. In particular, TNF was shown to affect carcinogenesis in multiple ways. This cytokine acts via the activation of two cell surface receptors, TNFR1, which is associated with inflammation, and TNFR2, which was shown to cause anti-inflammatory signaling. We assessed the effects of TNF and its two receptors on the progression of pancreatic cancer by in vivo bioluminescence imaging in a syngeneic orthotopic tumor mouse model with Panc02 cells. Mice deficient for TNFR1 were unable to spontaneously reject Panc02 tumors and furthermore displayed enhanced tumor progression. In contrast, a fraction of wild type (37.5%), TNF deficient (12.5%), and TNFR2 deficient mice (22.2%) were able to fully reject the tumor within two weeks. Pancreatic tumors in TNFR1 deficient mice displayed increased vascular density, enhanced infiltration of CD4+ T cells and CD4+ forkhead box P3 (FoxP3)+ regulatory T cells (Treg) but reduced numbers of CD8+ T cells. These alterations were further accompanied by transcriptional upregulation of IL4. Thus, TNF and TNFR1 are required in pancreatic ductal carcinoma to ensure optimal CD8+ T cell-mediated immunosurveillance and tumor rejection. Exogenous systemic administration of human TNF, however, which only interacts with murine TNFR1, accelerated tumor progression. This suggests that TNFR1 has basically the capability in the Panc02 model to trigger pro-and anti-tumoral effects but the spatiotemporal availability of TNF seems to determine finally the overall outcome.
The cancerous inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A (CIP2A) is an oncogenic factor that stabilises the c-Myc protein. CIP2A is overexpressed in several tumours, and expression levels are an independent marker for long-term outcome. To determine whether CIP2A expression is elevated in colon cancer and whether it might serve as a prognostic marker for survival, we analysed CIP2A mRNA expression by real-time PCR in 104 colon cancer samples. CIP2A mRNA was overexpressed in colon cancer samples and CIP2A expression levels correlated significantly with tumour stage. We found that CIP2A serves as an independent prognostic marker for disease-free and overall survival. Further, we investigated CIP2A-dependent effects on levels of c-Myc, Akt and on cell proliferation in three colon cancer cell lines by silencing CIP2A using small interfering (si) and short hairpin (sh) RNAs. Depletion of CIP2A substantially inhibited growth of colon cell lines and reduced c-Myc levels without affecting expression or function of the upstream regulatory kinase, Akt. Expression of CIP2A was found to be dependent on MAPK activity, linking elevated c-Myc expression to deregulated signal transduction in colon cancer.
TrkB mediates the effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in neuronal and nonnneuronal cells. Based on recent reports that TrkB can also be transactivated through epidermal growth-factor receptor (EGFR) signaling and thus regulates migration of early neurons, we investigated the role of TrkB in migration of lung tumor cells. Early metastasis remains a major challenge in the clinical management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). TrkB receptor signaling is associated with metastasis and poor patient prognosis in NSCLC. Expression of this receptor in A549 cells and in another adenocarcinoma cell line, NCI-H441, promoted enhanced migratory capacity in wound healing assays in the presence of the TrkB ligand BDNF. Furthermore, TrkB expression in A549 cells potentiated the stimulatory effect of EGF in wound healing and in Boyden chamber migration experiments. Consistent with a potential loss of cell polarity upon TrkB expression, cell dispersal and de-clustering was induced in A549 cells independently of exogeneous BDNF. Morphological transformation involved extensive cytoskeletal changes, reduced E-cadherin expression and suppression of E-cadherin expression on the cell surface in TrkB expressing tumor cells. This function depended on MEK and Akt kinase activity but was independent of Src. These data indicate that TrkB expression in lung adenoma cells is an early step in tumor cell dissemination, and thus could represent a target for therapy development.
Characterization of Metastasis Formation and Virotherapy in the Human C33A Cervical Cancer Model
(2014)
More than 90% of cancer mortalities are due to cancer that has metastasized. Therefore, it is crucial to intensify research on metastasis formation and therapy. Here, we describe for the first time the metastasizing ability of the human cervical cancer cell line C33A in athymic nude mice after subcutaneous implantation of tumor cells. In this model, we demonstrated a steady progression of lumbar and renal lymph node metastases during tumor development. Besides predominantly occurring lymphatic metastases, we visualized the formation of hematogenous metastases utilizing red fluorescent protein (RFP) expressing C33A-RFP cells. RFP positive cancer cells were found migrating in blood vessels and forming micrometastases in lungs of tumor-bearing mice. Next, we set out to analyze the influence of oncolytic virotherapy in the C33A-RFP model and demonstrated an efficient virus-mediated reduction of tumor size and metastatic burden. These results suggest the C33A-RFP cervical cancer model as a new platform to analyze cancer metastases as well as to test novel treatment options to combat metastases.