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  • Title: Transplacental carcinogenicity of cisplatin: initiation of skin tumors and induction of other preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions in SENCAR mice.
    Author: Diwan BA, Anderson LM, Rehm S, Rice JM.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1993 Sep 01; 53(17):3874-6. PubMed ID: 8358711.
    Abstract:
    cis-Dichlorodiammineplatinum (cis-DDP), an anticancer agent sometimes used in pregnant women for the treatment of malignant ovarian and uterine tumors, was tested for transplacental carcinogenic and/or tumor-initiating effects in SENCAR mice. Pregnant mice were given a single i.p. injection of either cis-DDP (7.5 mg/kg body weight) in 2.5% NaCl or the same weight-adjusted volume of NaCl (5 ml/kg body weight) on day 17 of gestation. Offspring were delivered and raised by their natural mothers until weaning at 3 weeks of age. Starting at week 4, offspring in experimental groups received topical applications of 2 micrograms 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in acetone twice a week for 20 weeks while those in control groups received only acetone (0.2 ml/application) for the same duration. The experiment was terminated at 25 weeks of age. A high incidence (18 of 37; 48.7%) of papillomas was observed in offspring exposed transplacentally to cis-DDP and postnatally to TPA, while only 10% (4 of 40) of offspring exposed to TPA alone developed such tumors (P < 0.0002). Although no skin tumors were observed without TPA promotion, transplacental administration of cis-DDP resulted in development of thymic lymphomas, lung tumors, and proliferative kidney lesions in offspring. These results provide the first evidence that cis-DDP can initiate and/or induce preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions in multiple tissues transplacentally.
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