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lüll Chemo-radiotherapy: radiosensitizing nucleoside analogues (review) Gregoire V; Hittelman WN; Rosier JF; Milas LOncol Rep 1999[Sep]; 6 (5): 949-57The available knowledge on potential radiosensitizing nucleoside analogues with special focus on fludarabine and gemcitabine is reviewed. These analogues are prodrugs whose active triphosphate forms inhibit various enzymes involved in DNA synthesis and repair. Several properties of these analogues support their use as radiosensitizers. As repair inhibitors, they have the potential to increase the amount of residual DNA and chromosome damage after irradiation, and as DNA synthesis inhibitors, they specifically target the S-phase cell component and could thus overcome the detrimental effect of tumor clonogen repopulation during fractionated irradiation. Also, through their cytotoxic effect, these analogues could increase tumor cell loss, facilitating tumor reoxygenation, and thus obviate tumor hypoxia's inhibitory effect on radioresponse. Induction of DNA damage in all phases of the cell cycle by irradiation could create DNA sites for drug incorporation, possibly inducing an apoptotic response in cells outside of S-phase. Experimental data addressing these hypotheses are reviewed and updates on ongoing clinical trials combining fludarabine or gemcitabine and irradiation are given.|Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Deoxycytidine/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use[MESH]|Gemcitabine[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Neoplasms/*drug therapy/*radiotherapy[MESH]|Nucleosides/chemistry/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Prodrugs/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Radiation-Sensitizing Agents/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Vidarabine/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use[MESH] |