Clinical Cancer Research, Vol 4, Issue 3 763-771, Copyright © 1998 by American Association for Cancer Research

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Combined antitumor effect of radiation and ibuprofen in human prostate carcinoma cells

ST Palayoor, EA Bump, SK Calderwood, S Bartol and CN Coleman
Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. SPALAYOOR@JCRT.harvard.edu

Recent clinical observations indicate that ibuprofen may alleviate the radiation-induced dysuria that almost invariably occurs during radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Because the use of ibuprofen could consequently become common during radiation therapy for prostate cancer, we have been interested in the potential interactions between ibuprofen and ionizing radiation on prostate tumor cells. The effects of gamma-irradiation and/or ibuprofen on PC3 and DU-145 human prostate carcinoma cells were evaluated in vitro using three model systems. Clonogenic survival was determined by plating cells 24 h after treatment of nearly confluent monolayers. Analysis of cell growth, cell detachment, and apoptotic cell death was carried out over a period of up to 9 days after treatment of PC3 and DU-145 monolayers. The effect of ibuprofen and/or radiation was also probed by observing the inhibition of growth of established PC3 and DU-145 colonies that were treated on the 14th day of colony growth. Ibuprofen enhanced the radiation response of prostate cancer cells in all three in vitro models. Both the cytotoxic and radiosensitizing effects of ibuprofen seem to require concentrations that are higher than those reported to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis, suggesting that other molecular mechanisms may be responsible for ibuprofen cytotoxicity.

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