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Journal of Ovarian Research
Published in: Journal of Ovarian Research 1/2015

Open Access 01-12-2015 | Research

Evidence for induction of a tumor metastasis-receptive microenvironment for ovarian cancer cells in bone marrow and other organs as an unwanted and underestimated side effect of chemotherapy/radiotherapy

Authors: Pranesh M Gunjal, Gabriela Schneider, Ahmed Abdelbaset Ismail, Sham S Kakar, Magda Kucia, Mariusz Z Ratajczak

Published in: Journal of Ovarian Research | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Background

One of side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is the induction of several factors in various tissues and organs that create a pro-metastatic microenvironment for cancer cells that survive initial treatment.

Methods

In the present study, we employed human ovarian cancer cell line A2780 and immunodeficient mice xenogrfat model to test effect of both ibuprofen and dexamethasone to ameliorate the therapy-induced pro-metastatic microenvironment in bone marrow, liver, and lung.

Results

In our studies, we found that total body irradiation or administration of cisplatin increases the metastatic spread of human ovarian cancer cells transplanted into immunodeficient mice compared with animals unexposed to irradiation or cisplatin. Moreover, conditioned media harvested from irradiated murine bone marrow, lung, and liver chemoattracted human ovarian cancer cells, and this chemotactic activity was inactivated by heat, suggesting a major involvement of peptide or peptide-bound chemoattractants. We also observed that human ovarian cancer cells proliferate better if exposed to cell debris harvested from irradiated murine bone marrow. Finally, the pro-metastatic microenvironment in mice induced by radio- or chemotherapy was significantly ameliorated if animals were treated at the time of radiotherapy administration with non-steroid (ibuprofen) or steroid (prednisone) anti-inflammatory drugs.

Conclusions

In summary, we propose that a radiochemotherapy-induced, pro-metastatic microenvironment plays an important role in the metastasis of cancer cells that are resistant to treatment. Such cells have characteristics of cancer stem cells and are highly migratory, and simple, intensive, anti-inflammatory treatment by non-steroid agents to suppress induction of pro-metastatic factors after radiochemotherapy would be an interesting anti-metastatic treatment alternative.
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Metadata
Title
Evidence for induction of a tumor metastasis-receptive microenvironment for ovarian cancer cells in bone marrow and other organs as an unwanted and underestimated side effect of chemotherapy/radiotherapy
Authors
Pranesh M Gunjal
Gabriela Schneider
Ahmed Abdelbaset Ismail
Sham S Kakar
Magda Kucia
Mariusz Z Ratajczak
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Ovarian Research / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1757-2215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13048-015-0141-7

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