The Delivery Materials with Chemotherapy Drugs for Treatment of the Positive Margin in Solid Tumors

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The positive surgical margins in solid tumors has been a disturbing issue for clinicians. Chemotherapy is an important method to deal with the positive margin. However, systemic chemotherapy is required for long-term administration and has great side effects on health, which cause great pain to the patients. Local administration of slow-release materials provides an opportunity to improve the situation. In this study, we utilized electrospinning technology to create the drug sustained-release materials with nanofibrous structure, which were made from polylactic acid and a certain proportion of chemotherapy drugs (gemcitabine and cisplatin). In vitro release behavior of the drug sustained-release materials were explored by the high-performance liquid chromatography. The antitumor efficacy of the drug sustained-release materials was preliminarily verified in prostate cancer and breast cancer in vitro . Through animal models of breast cancer, the drug sustained-release materials in the treatment of the positive margin has been well documented in vivo , and we also found that the drug sustained-release materials could definitely reduce the liver damage and myelosuppression compared with systemic chemotherapy. In summary, the experimental results showed that the local administration of the drug sustained-release materials could effectively inhibit the growth of the positive incision margins and definitely reduce the partial side effects associated with systemic chemotherapy.

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