A novel intraperitoneal therapy for gastric cancer with DFP-10825, a unique RNAi therapeutic targeting thymidylate synthase, in a peritoneally disseminated xenograft model.

Purpose: In advanced gastric cancer, peritoneal dissemination is a life-threatening mode of metastasis. Since the treatment options with conventional chemotherapy remain limited, any novel therapeutic strategy that could control such metastasis would improve the outcome of treatment. We recently developed a unique RNA interference therapeutic regimen (DFP-10825) consisting of short hairpin RNA against thymidylate synthase (TS shRNA) and cationic liposomes.