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Confirmation of drug delivery after liver chemoembolization: direct tissue doxorubicin measurement by UHPLC-MS-MS.

Abstract
Because liver cancer is rarely suitable for surgery, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is used for palliative therapy. In this procedure, an emulsion of doxorubicin in iodized oil is injected directly into liver tumors through a catheter positioned within the artery supplying blood flow to the tumor. At present, there is limited understanding of factors affecting the delivery and dispersion of doxorubicin within treated tumors during TACE. This study addresses the development and application of an ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS-MS) method for rapid confirmation of drug delivery after TACE in a rabbit VX2 liver cancer model. Doxorubicin levels in liver tumors were measured using UHPLC-MS-MS and compared with computed tomography measured levels of iodized oil, a metric used clinically to indicate drug delivery. We found that tissue drug levels determined using UHPLC-MS-MS did not correlate with the regional iodized oil concentration (vehicle) within tumors following TACE, suggesting that chemotherapeutic drugs like doxorubicin spread throughout tumors, and that lack of iodized oil staining in portions of a tumor does not necessarily indicate inadequate therapy during TACE.
AuthorsSigrid Baumgarten, Ron C Gaba, Richard B van Breemen
JournalBiomedical chromatography : BMC (Biomed Chromatogr) Vol. 26 Issue 12 Pg. 1529-33 (Dec 2012) ISSN: 1099-0801 [Electronic] England
PMID22454282 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
CopyrightCopyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Chemical References
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Emulsions
  • Ethiodized Oil
  • Doxorubicin
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic (administration & dosage, analysis, pharmacokinetics)
  • Chemoembolization, Therapeutic (instrumentation, methods)
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid (methods)
  • Doxorubicin (administration & dosage, analysis, pharmacokinetics)
  • Drug Delivery Systems
  • Emulsions (chemistry)
  • Ethiodized Oil (pharmacokinetics)
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental (chemistry, metabolism, pathology, therapy)
  • Male
  • Rabbits
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry (methods)
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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