Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 30;12(1):16399. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-20487-y.
Malignant brain tumors consist of malignancies originated primarily within the brain and the metastatic lesions disseminated from other organs. In spite of intensive studies, malignant brain tumors remain to be a medical challenge. Patient-derived organoid (PDO) can recapitulate the biological features of the primary tumor it was derived from and has emerged as a promising drug-screening model for precision therapy. Here we show a proof-of-concept based on early clinical study entailing the organoids derived from the surgically resected tumors of 26 patients with advanced malignant brain tumors enrolled during December 2020 to October 2021. The tumors included nine glioma patients, one malignant meningioma, one primary lymphoma patient, and 15 brain metastases. The primary tumor sites of the metastases included five from the lungs, three from the breasts, two from the ovaries, two from the colon, one from the testis, one of melanoma origin, and one of chondrosarcoma. Out of the 26 tissues, 13 (50%) organoids were successfully generated with a culture time of about 2 weeks. Among these patients, three were further pursued to have the organoids derived from their tumor tissues tested for the sensitivity to different therapeutic drugs in parallel to their clinical care. Our results showed that the therapeutic effects observed by the organoid models were consistent to the responses of these patients to their treatments. Our study suggests that PDO can recapitulate patient responses in the clinic with high potential of implementation in personalized medicine of malignant brain tumors.
恶性脑肿瘤由主要起源于大脑内的恶性肿瘤和来自其他器官的转移性病变组成。尽管进行了深入研究,但恶性脑肿瘤仍然是一个医学挑战。患者来源的类器官(PDO)可以再现其起源的原发性肿瘤的生物学特征,并且已经成为精准治疗的有前途的药物筛选模型。在这里,我们展示了一个基于概念验证的研究,该研究涉及 26 名患有晚期恶性脑肿瘤的患者的手术切除肿瘤衍生的类器官,这些患者于 2020 年 12 月至 2021 年 10 月期间入组。肿瘤包括 9 名胶质瘤患者、1 名恶性脑膜瘤患者、1 名原发性淋巴瘤患者和 15 名脑转移瘤患者。转移瘤的原发肿瘤部位包括 5 个来自肺部、3 个来自乳房、2 个来自卵巢、2 个来自结肠、1 个来自睾丸、1 个来自黑色素瘤和 1 个来自软骨肉瘤。在 26 个组织中,有 13 个(50%)类器官成功生成,培养时间约为 2 周。在这些患者中,有 3 人进一步进行了研究,将其肿瘤组织衍生的类器官用于测试不同治疗药物的敏感性,同时进行临床治疗。我们的结果表明,类器官模型观察到的治疗效果与这些患者对治疗的反应一致。我们的研究表明,PDO 可以再现患者在临床中的反应,具有在恶性脑肿瘤的个性化医学中实施的高潜力。