Frontiers in Oncology (Apr 2022)

Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids: New Progress and Opportunities to Facilitate Precision Cancer Immunotherapy

  • Ji Wang,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Mingjun Xie,
  • Mingjun Xie,
  • Xinyang Ge,
  • Sufan Wu,
  • Yong He,
  • Yong He,
  • Yong He,
  • Yong He,
  • Xiaozhou Mou,
  • Chenyang Ye,
  • Chenyang Ye,
  • Chenyang Ye,
  • Yi Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.872531
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the field of cancer treatment in recent years. However, not all patients receiving cancer immunotherapy exhibit durable responses, and reliable, high-throughput testing platforms are urgently needed to guide personalized cancer immunotherapy. The ability of patient-derived tumor organoids to recapitulate pivotal features of original cancer tissues makes them useful as a preclinical model for cancer research and precision medicine. Nevertheless, many challenges exist in the translation of tumor organoid research to clinical decision making. Herein we discuss the applications of patient-derived tumor organoid models and the advances and potential of using complex immune-organoid systems as testing platforms to facilitate precision cancer immunotherapy. In addition, we highlight intriguing applications of tumor organoids with novel multi-omics in preclinical cancer research, highlighting genetic editing, proteomics, and liquid biopsy.

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