Anticancer agents adsorbed by activated carbon particles, a new form of dosage enhancing efficacy on lymphnodal metastases

Anticancer Res. 1986 Sep-Oct;6(5):1005-8.

Abstract

A new dosage form consisting of small activated carbon particles which adsorb Aclacinomycin A, Adriamycin, Mitomycin C or Pepleomycin was prepared in order to deliver larger amounts of anticancer agents to the lymph nodes through the high ability of lymphatics to adsorb particles. Animal experiments showed that: The LD50 values of the new dosage form were higher than those of the dosage in solution. The concentration of agents in lymph nodes was maintained at a higher level in the new dosage form than in solution form. Clinically 33% of lymphnodal metastatic lesions became degenerative or inflammatory after a single administration.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Aclarubicin
  • Adsorption
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bleomycin / administration & dosage
  • Bleomycin / therapeutic use
  • Charcoal / therapeutic use*
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Dogs
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Doxorubicin / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lethal Dose 50
  • Lymphatic Metastasis / drug therapy*
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mitomycin
  • Mitomycins / administration & dosage
  • Mitomycins / therapeutic use
  • Naphthacenes / administration & dosage
  • Naphthacenes / therapeutic use
  • Peplomycin

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Mitomycins
  • Naphthacenes
  • Bleomycin
  • Charcoal
  • Mitomycin
  • Peplomycin
  • Aclarubicin
  • Doxorubicin