posted on 2023-03-31, 23:14authored byJoseph E. Grossman, Lakshmi Muthuswamy, Ling Huang, Dipikaa Akshinthala, Sofia Perea, Raul S. Gonzalez, Leo L. Tsai, Jonah Cohen, Bruno Bockorny, Andrea J. Bullock, Benjamin Schlechter, Mary Linton B. Peters, Catherine Conahan, Supraja Narasimhan, Christine Lim, Roger B. Davis, Robert Besaw, Mandeep S. Sawhney, Douglas Pleskow, Tyler M. Berzin, Martin Smith, Tara S. Kent, Mark Callery, Senthil K. Muthuswamy, Manuel Hidalgo
Supplementary Data from Organoid Sensitivity Correlates with Therapeutic Response in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
Funding
Judy and Kim Davis.
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National Institutes of Health
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ARTICLE ABSTRACT
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a significant health issue. For most patients, there are no options for targeted therapy, and existing treatments are limited by toxicity. The HOPE trial (Harnessing Organoids for PErsonalized Therapy) was a pilot feasibility trial aiming to prospectively generate patient-derived organoids (PDO) from patients with PDAC and test their drug sensitivity and correlation with clinical outcomes.
PDOs were established from a heterogeneous population of patients with PDAC including both basal and classical PDAC subtypes.
A method for classifying PDOs as sensitive or resistant to chemotherapy regimens was developed to predict the clinical outcome of patients. Drug sensitivity testing on PDOs correlated with clinical responses to treatment in individual patients.
These data support the investigation of PDOs to guide treatment in prospective interventional trials in PDAC.