Patient-derived Organoid Pharmacotyping is a Clinically Tractable Strategy for Precision Medicine in Pancreatic Cancer.

Seppälä, Toni T, Zimmerman, Jacquelyn W, Sereni, Elisabetta, Plenker, Dennis, Suri, Reecha, Rozich, Noah, Blair, Alex, Thomas, Dwayne L, Teinor, Jonathan, Javed, Ammar, Patel, Hardik, Cameron, John L, Burns, William R, He, Jin, Tuveson, David A, Jaffee, Elizabeth M, Eshleman, James, Szabolcs, Annamaria, Ryan, David P, Ting, David T, Wolfgang, Christopher L, Burkhart, Richard A (September 2020) Patient-derived Organoid Pharmacotyping is a Clinically Tractable Strategy for Precision Medicine in Pancreatic Cancer. Annals of Surgery, 272 (3). pp. 427-435. ISSN 0003-4932

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32657929
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004200

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: PDAC patients who undergo surgical resection and receive effective chemotherapy have the best chance of long-term survival. Unfortunately, we lack predictive biomarkers to guide optimal systemic treatment. Ex-vivo generation of PDO for pharmacotyping may serve as predictive biomarkers in PDAC. The goal of the current study was to demonstrate the clinical feasibility of a PDO-guided precision medicine framework of care. METHODS: PDO cultures were established from surgical specimens and endoscopic biopsies, expanded in Matrigel, and used for high-throughput drug testing (pharmacotyping). Efficacy of standard-of-care chemotherapeutics was assessed by measuring cell viability after drug exposure. RESULTS: A framework for rapid pharmacotyping of PDOs was established across a multi-institutional consortium of academic medical centers. Specimens obtained remotely and shipped to a central biorepository maintain viability and allowed generation of PDOs with 77% success. Early cultures maintain the clonal heterogeneity seen in PDAC with similar phenotypes (cystic-solid). Late cultures exhibit a dominant clone with a pharmacotyping profile similar to early passages. The biomass required for accurate pharmacotyping can be minimized by leveraging a high-throughput technology. Twenty-nine cultures were pharmacotyped to derive a population distribution of chemotherapeutic sensitivity at our center. Pharmacotyping rapidly-expanded PDOs was completed in a median of 48 (range 18-102) days. CONCLUSIONS: Rapid development of PDOs from patients undergoing surgery for PDAC is eminently feasible within the perioperative recovery period, enabling the potential for pharmacotyping to guide postoperative adjuvant chemotherapeutic selection. Studies validating PDOs as a promising predictive biomarker are ongoing.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: diseases & disorders > cancer
diseases & disorders
Investigative techniques and equipment
diseases & disorders > neoplasms
Investigative techniques and equipment > cell culture > cancer organoids
Investigative techniques and equipment > cell culture
diseases & disorders > cancer > drugs and therapies > chemotherapy
diseases & disorders > cancer > drugs and therapies
diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > pancreatic cancer
diseases & disorders > cancer > drugs and therapies > precision medicine
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Tuveson lab
CSHL Cancer Center Program > Cellular Communication in Cancer Program
SWORD Depositor: CSHL Elements
Depositing User: CSHL Elements
Date: 1 September 2020
Date Deposited: 25 May 2021 20:51
Last Modified: 01 Feb 2024 18:25
PMCID: PMC7901605
URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/40162

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