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Abstract #1843

Metabolic Effects of Deferiprone on Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Paola Porcari1, Ellen Ackerstaff1, H. Carl Lekaye1, and Jason A. Koutcher1,2,3,4
1Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, NY, United States, 2Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States, 3Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States, 4Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) metastasizes and is currently associated with poor prognosis and lack of effective targeted therapies. We are studying the potential of Deferiprone, an intracellular iron chelator clinically used for non-cancer-related diseases, to improve the chemotherapeutic treatment response in TNBC by altering cellular iron-dependent proliferation and metabolism. Here, cellular and energy metabolism changes in response to Deferiprone were assayed in live TNBC cells by multi-nuclear MRS in our MR-compatible bioreactor. Metabolic changes in a human TNBC cell line are compared to previous findings in murine TNBC cells.

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