Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Patient-derived xenografts and organoids model therapy response in prostate cancer

  • Sofia Karkampouna,
  • Federico La Manna,
  • Andrej Benjak,
  • Mirjam Kiener,
  • Marta De Menna,
  • Eugenio Zoni,
  • Joël Grosjean,
  • Irena Klima,
  • Andrea Garofoli,
  • Marco Bolis,
  • Arianna Vallerga,
  • Jean-Philippe Theurillat,
  • Maria R. De Filippo,
  • Vera Genitsch,
  • David Keller,
  • Tijmen H. Booij,
  • Christian U. Stirnimann,
  • Kenneth Eng,
  • Andrea Sboner,
  • Charlotte K. Y. Ng,
  • Salvatore Piscuoglio,
  • Peter C. Gray,
  • Martin Spahn,
  • Mark A. Rubin,
  • George N. Thalmann,
  • Marianna Kruithof-de Julio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21300-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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To date, patients still succumb to cancer, due to tumors not responding to therapy or ultimately acquiring resistance. Here the authors show that by exploiting patient derived organoids and a treatment-naïve patient derived xenograft, patient therapy can be personalized.