This deals with the current paradigm of treatment of osteosarcoma. It is an honest effort to clear the prevailing confusion in the treatment of osteosarcoma. I would be happy to get anyone
2. Adjuvant Chemotherapy -
Evidence
Life-Table analysis of Relapse-Free Survival after Surgery in Patients
Accepting Randomization
Link MP, Goorin AM, Miser AW, et al. The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy on relapse-free survival in patients with osteosarcoma of the extremity. N Engl J
Med 1986; 314:1600
3. Points that will be covered
ο Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs four
drugs therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
ο Changing therapy based upon response
ο Dose dense therapy
ο Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing regimen
ο Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid/ Metronomic
chemotherapy
4. Methotrexate (Mtx) vs non Mtx
regimen (double vs triple)
ο Single randomized trial comparing
CDDP / doxo vs CDDP/ doxo/ HDMtx1
ο No difference in Overall survival (OS)
ο DFS was superior in doublet arm
ο Trial design and conduct ?
1. Bramwell et al. A comparison of two adjuvant chemotherapy regimens in operable osteosarcoma of limbs in
children and young adults: the first study of the EOI. JCO 1992
15. Points that will be covered
ο Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs
four drugs therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
ο Changing therapy based upon response
ο Dose dense therapy?
ο Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing
regimen
ο Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid
21. Toxicity
β’ Grade 4 non hematological toxicity was 24%
in MAP IE vs 12% in MAP chemotherapy arm
β’ Numerically higher second malignancy in
patients with MAP IE chemotherapy
EURAMOS-1 demonstrates achievability.
22. Points that will be covered
β’ Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs four drugs
therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
β’ Changing therapy based upon response
β’ Dose dense therapy?
β’ Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing regimen
β’ Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid
23. ο Histopathological response improved
ο Good pathological response was 50% in DI arm vs 36%
in non DI arm
J Natl Cancer Inst 2007;99: 112 β 28
26. Points that will be covered
ο Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs
four drugs therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
ο Changing therapy based upon response
ο Dose dense therapy
ο Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing
regimen
ο Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid
27. Requirements of high dose
methotrexate
ο Hydration and alkalanization β admission and
cost
ο Leucovorin administration
ο Routine monitoring of serum methotrexate
concentration.
28. Renal failure risk
ο 1.8-2% in clinical trials with optimal supportive
care
ο Hemodialysis β High flux dialyzer
ο carboxypeptidase-G2 (CPDG2)- a recombinant
bacterial enzyme
29. Indian Perspective
ο Admission cost
ο Methotrexate levels not widely available
ο Carboxypeptidase G2 not available
ο Hemodialysis facilities might be available in
our institute but what about others?
32. Points that will be covered
ο Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs
four drugs therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
ο Changing therapy based upon response
ο Dose dense therapy?
ο Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing
regimen
ο Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid
33. IFN
ο Anti tumor, anti angiogenensis, immune regulators
ο Interferon alpha inhibits the growth of osteosarcoma
cells in vitro.
ο Data from Scandinavian studies β
ο N=89
ο After surgery only IFN alpha was given
ο 10 year disease free survival 38%
Pediatr Blood Cancer 2010;54:350β354
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36. Mifamurtide
ο Muramyl tripeptide (MTP) phosphatidylethanolamine
synthetic lipophilic analog of muramyl dipeptide.
ο Liposomes for the delivery of the drug to monocytes
and macrophages
ο Active in rodent model and canine osteosarcoma
40. ο Background
Anti tumor effect on cell lines and reduce primary and
lung metastasis in mouse.
ο N= 318 patients
ο 17% were metastatic
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42.
43. Points that will be covered
ο Double drug regimen vs triple drug therapy (MAP) vs
four drugs therapies (MAP plus ifosfamide)
ο Changing therapy based upon response
ο Dose dense therapy?
ο Three drug non high dose methotrexate containing
regimen
ο Mifamurtide/ IFN alpha/zoledronic acid
44. Summary
ο Triple drug protocol IAP might be the most apt protocol for
us
ο Carefully designed trials with collaborative efforts
ο Biologicals/ zoledronic acid/ metrnomics have failed
ο While developed countries are doing good research, we
should first focus on early detection, decreased
abandonment, multidisciplinary meet/ proper diagnosis
and optimising treatment gaps and delays.
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46. When we blindly adopt a religion,
political dogma, we become
automations and thus we cease to grow
Anais Nin
French born American author
Editor's Notes
Debate against the sine qua non need for methotrexate in osteosarcoma
projected six-year event-free survival for the control group is 11% compared to 61% for the chemotherapy group
Multi-Institutional Osteosarcoma Study (MIOS). The biologic behavior is consistent with the premise that silent pulmonary micrometastases are present in at least 80% of patients at diagnosis. These metastases are not visible on imaging studies, but in the absence of effective systemic therapy, they generally surface 6 to 9 months after surgical ablation of the primary tumor
Contrary to expectations! Disease free survival was better in doublet arm
Extremity osteosarcoma, high dose methotrexate dose, 4 cycles vs 6 cycles. Low DFS for the 5 years. Weak comparison arm. Rather than showing benefit in 3 drugs arm, the trial favoured 2 drugs regimen.
What was the components of multidrug regimens-- (preoperatively vincristine, high-dose methotrexate, and doxorubicin; postoperatively bleomycin, cyclophosphamide, dactinomycin, vincristine, methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cisplatin; this protocol took 44 weeks
The appeal of such designs is obvious: two different treatment questions may be asked of the same pool of patientstrade-off between potential gains from testing more questions with fewer patients versus how often a factorial trial might arrive at an incorrect conclusion
Small randomised trials or large randomised trials with a suspicion of bias (lower methodological quality) or meta-analyses of such trials or of trials with demonstrated heterogeneity
Osteosarcoma: Current Treatment and a Collaborative Pathway to Success
EURAMOS-1 was an open-label, international, randomised,
phase 3, controlled trial. The structure and
design of this trial have been previously published.After a diagnostic biopsy, patients with newly diagnosed osteosarcoma could be registered to this trial. Patients were registered from 325 sites in 17 countries.
3 years survival was 60% in MAP and 57% in MAP IE.
Our fi ndings do not support the intensifi cation of postoperative
chemotherapy by adding ifosfamide and etoposide for patients.. Considerable regulatory, financial and operational challenges must be overcome to develop similar studies in the future.
with a poor response to preoperative chemotherapy
500 odd patients were randomized to 3 weekly chemotherapy regimen vs 2 weekly regimen.
High dose methotrexate defined by 1gm/m2 (reference - Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2012 Jan; 73(1): 106β114. )
Admission for hydration as well as alkalinization. Concurrent cisplatin adminstration
A major limitation on the use of dialysis-based methods is the marked rebound in plasma MTX concentrations that can occur when the dialysis is stopped. Rebound increases in the postdialysis plasma MTX concentration were in the range of 10%β221% of the postprocedure MTX level [44, 49, 50] and 90%β100% of the preprocedure MTX level [51β54]. Further limitations of these methods are the accompanying risks for complications from these invasive procedures. Reported complications include cardiac arrest in one patient after plasma exchange [51], bleeding from the catheter exit site [52], anemia [52, 55], thrombocytopenia [52, 56], and hypokalemia and severe hypophosphatemia [48].
Last p
Pegylation of therapeutic proteins is a well established method
for delaying clearance and reducing protein immunogenicity.
Interferon has a short half-life and requires dosing at least
three times a week. A pegylated form of interferon a-2b is available which has an elimination half-life of 40 hr compared with 4 hr for
standard interferon.
which is a component of the cell wall of
Bacille Calmette-Guerin. Factorial design and interaction is the root of controversy in factorial design study.
MTP-PE has been encapsulated
in liposomes to deliver the agent selectively to monocytes
and macrophages to activate them to become tumoricidal
4 preoperative and 6 post operative zoledronic acid infusion should be given (ten monthly infusions of zoledronic acid
Primary end point was event free survival. Assuming a 3 year evvent fee survival of 55% and 80% power to detect 13% difference in 3 year event free survival