Osteosarcoma

HC Beird, SS Bielack, AM Flanagan, J Gill… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2022 - nature.com
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumour of the bone. Osteosarcoma
incidence is bimodal, peaking at 18 and 60 years of age, and is slightly more common in …

[HTML][HTML] Functional precision oncology: testing tumors with drugs to identify vulnerabilities and novel combinations

A Letai, P Bhola, AL Welm - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Functional precision medicine is a strategy whereby live tumor cells from affected individuals
are directly perturbed with drugs to provide immediately translatable, personalized …

[HTML][HTML] A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …

Cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity: A paradigm shift in glioblastoma

YA Yabo, SP Niclou, A Golebiewska - Neuro-oncology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity has emerged as a major contributor to intra-tumoral heterogeneity and
treatment resistance in cancer. Increasing evidence shows that glioblastoma (GBM) cells …

Towards precision oncology with patient-derived xenografts

ER Zanella, E Grassi, L Trusolino - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Under the selective pressure of therapy, tumours dynamically evolve multiple adaptive
mechanisms that make static interrogation of genomic alterations insufficient to guide …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive characterization of 536 patient-derived xenograft models prioritizes candidates for targeted treatment

H Sun, S Cao, RJ Mashl, CK Mo, S Zaccaria… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Development of candidate cancer treatments is a resource-intensive process, with
the research community continuing to investigate options beyond static genomic …

Dissecting metastasis using preclinical models and methods

JD Hebert, JW Neal, MM Winslow - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis has long been understood to lead to the overwhelming majority of cancer-related
deaths. However, our understanding of the metastatic process, and thus our ability to …

Microenvironment-driven intratumoral heterogeneity in head and neck cancers: clinical challenges and opportunities for precision medicine

H Zaryouh, M Vara-Messler, J Vignau… - Drug Resistance …, 2022 - Elsevier
Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) is among the most prevalent
cancer types worldwide. Despite multimodal therapeutic approaches that include surgical …

[HTML][HTML] Role of patient-derived models of cancer in translational oncology

KF Idrisova, HU Simon, MO Gomzikova - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary It was found that long-established tumor-derived cell lines do not
adequately reproduce drug sensitivity and behavior of a real human cancers. Therefore …

Experimental in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models in prostate cancer research

V Sailer, G von Amsberg, S Duensing, J Kirfel… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Androgen deprivation therapy has a central role in the treatment of advanced prostate
cancer, often causing initial tumour remission before increasing independence from signal …