Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Patient-derived lung cancer organoids as in vitro cancer models for therapeutic screening

  • Minsuh Kim,
  • Hyemin Mun,
  • Chang Oak Sung,
  • Eun Jeong Cho,
  • Hye-Joon Jeon,
  • Sung-Min Chun,
  • Da Jung Jung,
  • Tae Hoon Shin,
  • Gi Seok Jeong,
  • Dong Kwan Kim,
  • Eun Kyung Choi,
  • Seong-Yun Jeong,
  • Alison M. Taylor,
  • Sejal Jain,
  • Matthew Meyerson,
  • Se Jin Jang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11867-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The clinical efficacy of standard therapy in lung cancer is limited by high level of heterogeneity. Here, the authors report patient-derived lung cancer organoids from different histological subtypes and show them to faithfully recapitulate the histology, genomics, and drug responses of the primary lung tumours.