The influence of the surgical wound on local tumor recurrence

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989 · Surgery; (USA)

OSTI ID:5405161

Baker, D G; Masterson, T M; Pace, R; Constable, W C; Wanebo, H ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville (USA)

Failure of a primary surgical treatment for cancer is often caused by recurrence of the tumor at the surgical site. The KHT mouse tumor system recapitulates this experience and provides a useful model to test strategies for reducing the incidence of local recurrence after surgical excision. There was an 82% local recurrence of the KHT tumor after surgery. A cell dilution assay indicated that it would require only 39 tumor cells injected into the wound site to result in the same (82%) incidence of tumors. This figure is in contrast to 340 cells required when the cells were injected into an unwounded flank. With the B16 melanoma in C57B1 mice and the Meth A sarcoma in BALB/c mice, the number of cells necessary to induce a tumor (TD/50) was also significantly reduced when the cells were injected into a surgical wound rather than into nonwounded tissue. The difference in cell number was interpreted as the result of the presence of growth factors derived from the traumatized tissue and the inflammatory cells at the wound site. Neither a 5 nor a 15 Gy dose of x-radiation delivered to the wound site immediately after surgical excision of the KHT tumor resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of local recurrences. When the same doses of x-radiation were given immediately after injecting 36 KHT cells into a wound, no tumors developed. This difference was believed to have resulted from the hypoxic condition in the wound site and the presence of residual clonogenic tumor cells in a nonproliferating (radioresistant) state.

• OSTI ID: 5405161
• Journal Information: Surgery; (USA), Journal Name: Surgery; (USA) Vol. 106:3; ISSN SURGA; ISSN 0039-6060
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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