Cancer Cell Circuitry Laboratory, Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Research Programs Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 30;10(1):18733. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75411-z.
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Despite significant therapeutic advances in recent years, breast cancer also still causes the greatest number of cancer-related deaths in women, the vast majority of which (> 90%) are caused by metastases. However, very few mouse mammary cancer models exist that faithfully recapitulate the multistep metastatic process in human patients. Here we assessed the suitability of a syngrafting protocol for a Myc-driven mammary tumor model (WAP-Myc) to study autochthonous metastasis. A moderate but robust spontaneous lung metastasis rate of around 25% was attained. In addition, increased T cell infiltration was observed in metastatic tumors compared to donor and syngrafted primary tumors. Thus, the WAP-Myc syngrafting protocol is a suitable tool to study the mechanisms of metastasis in MYC-driven breast cancer.
乳腺癌是女性最常见的癌症形式。尽管近年来在治疗方面取得了重大进展,但乳腺癌仍然是导致女性癌症相关死亡人数最多的疾病,其中绝大多数 (> 90%)是由转移引起的。然而,能够忠实地再现人类患者多步骤转移过程的小鼠乳腺肿瘤模型非常少。在这里,我们评估了 Myc 驱动的乳腺肿瘤模型 (WAP-Myc) 的同种异体移植方案用于研究自发转移的适用性。达到了约 25%的中等但强大的自发肺转移率。此外,与供体和同种异体移植的原发性肿瘤相比,转移性肿瘤中观察到 T 细胞浸润增加。因此,WAP-Myc 同种异体移植方案是研究 MYC 驱动的乳腺癌转移机制的合适工具。