Small-cell lung cancer: what we know, what we need to know and the path forward

AF Gazdar, PA Bunn, JD Minna - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a deadly tumour accounting for approximately 15% of lung
cancers and is pathologically, molecularly, biologically and clinically very different from other …

Application of cancer organoid model for drug screening and personalized therapy

J Kondo, M Inoue - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drug screening—ie, testing the effects of a number of drugs in multiple cell lines—is used for
drug discovery and development, and can also be performed to evaluate the heterogeneity …

[HTML][HTML] IL-6 secreted from cancer-associated fibroblasts mediates chemoresistance in NSCLC by increasing epithelial-mesenchymal transition signaling

Y Shintani, A Fujiwara, T Kimura, T Kawamura… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction The tumor microenvironment is composed of different types of stromal cells that
represent a key component of tumor progression. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) …

CKAP4 is a Dickkopf1 receptor and is involved in tumor progression

H Kimura, K Fumoto, K Shojima… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Dickkopf1 (DKK1) is a secretory protein that antagonizes oncogenic Wnt signaling by
binding to the Wnt coreceptor low-density lipoprotein receptor–related protein 6 (LRP6) …

The distinct metabolic phenotype of lung squamous cell carcinoma defines selective vulnerability to glycolytic inhibition

J Goodwin, ML Neugent, SY Lee, JH Choe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adenocarcinoma (ADC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) are the two predominant
subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and are distinct in their histological …

[HTML][HTML] Head and neck cancer organoids established by modification of the CTOS method can be used to predict in vivo drug sensitivity

N Tanaka, AA Osman, Y Takahashi, A Lindemann… - Oral oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Currently there are no standard biomarkers of head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC) response to therapy. This is, due to a lack of adequate predictive tumor …

Clinical application of a lung cancer organoid (tumoroid) culture system

E Yokota, M Iwai, T Yukawa, M Yoshida… - NPJ Precision …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite high expectations for lung tumoroids, they have not been applied in the clinic due to
the difficulty of their long-term culture. Here, however, using AO (airway organoid) media …

High‐throughput screening in colorectal cancer tissue‐originated spheroids

J Kondo, T Ekawa, H Endo, K Yamazaki… - Cancer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Patient‐derived cancer organoid culture is an important live material that reflects clinical
heterogeneity. However, the limited amount of organoids available for each case as well as …

Intratumoral heterogeneity: from diversity comes resistance

A Pribluda, CC de la Cruz, EL Jackson - Clinical Cancer Research, 2015 - AACR
Tumors consist of a heterogeneous mixture of functionally distinct cancer cells. These
functional differences can be caused by varying levels of receptor activity, differentiation …

Current status of patient-derived ovarian cancer models

Y Maru, Y Hippo - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the leading causes of female cancer death. Recent studies
have documented its extensive variations as a disease entity, in terms of cell or tissue of …