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  • Title: Pancreatic cancer in the Syrian hamster induced by N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)-amine: cocarcinogenic effect of epidermal growth factor.
    Author: Chester JF, Gaissert HA, Ross JS, Malt RA.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1986 Jun; 46(6):2954-7. PubMed ID: 3009003.
    Abstract:
    Because epidermal growth factor (EGF) is rapidly bound and internalized into rat pancreas, stimulates uptake of tritiated thymidine, and increases pancreatic weight, a cocarcinogenic effect on pancreatic cancer seemed likely. Pancreatic adenocarcinomas were induced in 70 female Syrian hamsters by 19 weekly s.c. injections of N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP) (10 mg/kg). From Wk 5 through Wk 8 of BOP injections, additional s.c. injections of EGF (5 micrograms every 3 days for 10 injections) were given to 45 animals, while 25 received saline solution. An additional group of 10 received EGF alone, and another 10 animals received saline solution alone (controls). Eleven wk later, the mean body weight of EGF-treated animals increased by 29% as compared with that of controls, and their mean pancreatic weight relative to body weight increased by 44% as compared with controls. The mean body weight of EGF + BOP-treated animals increased by 10%, and their pancreatic weight relative to body weight increased by 22% as compared with that of animals treated with BOP alone. The incidence of pancreatic cancer in the EGF + BOP-treated animals was 75% versus 44% in those treated with BOP alone (P = 0.016). No tumors developed in either animals treated with EGF alone or control animals. EGF augments pancreatic carcinogenesis induced by BOP. The incidence of bronchial carcinomas doubles.
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