Patient-derived cancer modeling for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: beyond the cancer cell line.

Patient-derived cancer modeling for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: beyond the cancer cell line. Cancer Biol Ther. 2020 Mar 25;:1-8 Authors: Pyo DH, Hong HK, Lee WY, Cho YB Abstract Since effective immunotherapeutic agents such as immune checkpoint blockade to treat cancer have emerged, the need for reliable preclinical cancer models that can evaluate and discover such drugs became stronger than ever before. The traditional preclinical cancer model using a cancer cell line has several limitations to recapitulate intra-tumor heterogeneity and in-vivo tumor activity including interactions between tumor-microenvironment. In this review, we will go over various preclinical cancer models recently discovered including patient-derived xenografts, humanized mice, organoids, organotypic-tumor spheroids, and organ-on-a-chip models. Moreover, we will discuss the future directions of preclinical cancer research. PMID: 32208894 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cancer Biology and Therapy - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Cancer Biol Ther Source Type: research