Abstract
Rapid assessment of cancer response to a therapeutic regimen can determine efficacy early in the course of treatment. Although biopsies of cancer can be used to rapidly assess pharmacodynamic response, certain disease sites are less accessible to repeated biopsies. Here, we simultaneously assess response in all sites of disease within days of starting therapy by use of peptide ligands selected for their ability to discern responding from nonresponding cancers. When conjugated to near-infrared imaging agents, the HVGGSSV peptide differentiates between these two types of cancer. Rapid, noninvasive assessment of the pharmacodynamic response within cancer promises to accelerate drug development and minimize the duration of treatment with ineffective regimens in cancer patients.
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This work was supported by US National Cancer Institute grants R01-CA89674, R01-CA112385 and R01-CA125757 (D.E.H.) and the Ingram Charitable Fund and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. We thank E. Ruoslahti (Burnham Institute) for the gift of T7 phage–based random peptide library and A. Kraker and P. Bailey (Pfizer) for technical assistance with mouse models of cancer.
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Z.H. and A.F. discovered and prioritized peptides. A.F., R.D. and H.O. performed all mouse imaging. H.W. and L.G. performed cell assays microscopy and histology. D.E.H. is the principle investigator and oversaw all studies.
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Han, Z., Fu, A., Wang, H. et al. Noninvasive assessment of cancer response to therapy. Nat Med 14, 343–349 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1691
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