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A rectal cancer organoid platform to study individual responses to chemoradiation

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Ganesh, Karuna, Wu, Chao, O’Rourke, Kevin P., Szeglin, Bryan C., Zheng, Youyun, Sauvé, Charles-Etienne Gabriel, Adileh, Mohammad, Wasserman, Isaac +42 more·2019·Nature Medicine

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Rectal cancer (RC) is a challenging disease to treat that requires chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to optimize outcomes for individual patients. No accurate model of RC exists to answer fundamental research questions relevant to patients. We established a biorepository of 65 patient-derived RC organoid cultures (tumoroids) from patients with primary, metastatic or recurrent disease. RC tumoroids retained molecular features of the tumors from which they were derived, and their ex vivo responses to clinically relevant chemotherapy and radiation treatment correlated with the clinical responses noted in individual patients' tumors. Upon engraftment into murine rectal mucosa, human RC tumoroids gave rise to invasive RC followed by metastasis to lung and liver. Importantly, engrafted tumors displayed the heterogenous sensitivity to chemotherapy observed clinically. Thus, the biology and drug sensitivity of RC clinical isolates can be efficiently interrogated using an organoid-based, ex vivo platform coupled with in vivo endoluminal propagation in animals.

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Ganesh, K., Wu, C., O’Rourke, K. P., Szeglin, B. C., Zheng, Y., Sauvé, C.-E. G., Adileh, M., Wasserman, I., Marco, M. R., Kim, A. S., Shady, M., Sanchez-Vega, F., Karthaus, W. R., Won, H. H., Choi, S.-H., Pelossof, R., Barlas, A., Ntiamoah, P., Pappou, E., Elghouayel, A., Strong, J. S., Chen, C.-T., Harris, J. W., Weiser, M. R., Nash, G. M., Guillem, J. G., Wei, I. H., Kolesnick, R. N., Veeraraghavan, H., Ortiz, E. J., Petkovska, I., Cercek, A., Manova-Todorova, K. O., Saltz, L. B., Lavery, J. A., DeMatteo, R. P., Massagué, J., Paty, P. B., Yaeger, R., Chen, X., Patil, S., Clevers, H., Berger, M. F., Lowe, S. W., Shia, J., Romesser, P. B., Dow, L. E., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Sawyers, C. L., & Smith, J. J.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NL)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
  • Sawyers, Charles L.
  • Smith, J. Joshua
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2019-10
Volume
25
Issue
10
Pages
1607-1614
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W2978373708
Cited by
569
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 65 · 2025: 90 · 2024: 89 · 2023: 81 · 2022: 100 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 6
FWCI
25.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • KNAW research portal (Royal Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW)) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5u54ca224079-04, U54OD020355, TL1TR002386)
  • National Cancer Institute (T32CA160001, K22CA181280, U54-CA224079, P01CA129243, P01CA094060, F30CA200110, R01CA182551, K08CA230213, R01CA155169, P30CA008748, K12CA184746, T32CA009207, P50CA092629, R25CA020449, R01CA193837)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007739)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
Keywords
rectal cancer, tumor organoids, chemoradiotherapy, drug sensitivity, patient-derived organoids, biorepository, metastasis, lung metastasis, liver metastasis, chemoresistance, prediction model
MeSH terms
Animals, Fluorouracil, Humans, Liver Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasms, Neoplasm Metastasis, Organoids, Rectal Neoplasms, Mice, Chemoradiotherapy

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