Multimodality Imaging of IL-18–Binding Protein-Fc Therapy of Experimental Lung Metastasis

Abstract
Purpose: Interleukin (IL)-18 plays important roles in cancer progression and metastasis. The goal of this study is to identify cell lines that are most sensitive to stand alone IL-18–binding protein (IL-18bp)-Fc treatment, to study the pharmacokinetics and tumor targeting efficiency of IL-18bp-Fc, and to evaluate the efficacy of IL-18bp-Fc in treating breast cancer experimental lung metastasis by multimodality imaging.