Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
10-2016
Abstract
Bladder cancer is the fifth most common in incidence and one of the most expensive cancers to treat. Early detection greatly improves the chances of survival and bladder preservation. The pH Low Insertion Peptide (pHLIP® peptide) conjugated with a near infrared fluorescent dye (ICG) targets low extracellular pH allowing visualization of malignant lesions in human bladder carcinoma ex vivo. Cystectomy specimens obtained after radical surgery were immediately irrigated with non-buffered saline and instilled with a solution of the ICG pHLIP® construct, incubated, and rinsed. Bladders were subsequently opened and imaged, the fluorescent spots were marked, and a standard pathological analysis was carried out to establish the correlation between ICG pHLIP® imaging and white light pathological assessment. Accurate targeting of bladder lesions was achieved with a sensitivity of 97%. Specificity is 100%, but reduced to 80%, if targeting of necrotic tissue from previous transurethral resections or chemotherapy are considered as false positives. ICG pHLIP® imaging agent marked high grade urothelial carcinomas, both muscle invasive and non-muscle invasive. Carcinoma in situ (CIS) was accurately diagnosed in 11 cases, whereas only 4 cases were seen using white light, so imaging with the ICG pHLIP® peptide offers improved early diagnosis of bladder cancers, and may also enable new treatment alternatives.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Golijanin, J., Amin, A., Moshnikova, A., Brito, J. M., Tran, T. Y., Adochite, R., Andreev, G. O.,...Golijanin, D. (2016). Targeted Imaging of Urothelium Carcinoma in Human Bladders by an ICG pHLIP Peptide Ex vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(42), 11829-11834. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610472113
Available at: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610472113
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