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@ARTICLE{SchwerdKleine:299505,
author = {P. Schwerd-Kleine$^*$ and R. Würth$^*$ and T. Cheytan$^*$
and L. Michel and V. Thewes$^*$ and E. Gutjahr$^*$ and H.
Seker-Cin and D. Kazdal and S.-J. Neuberth$^*$ and V.
Thiel$^*$ and J. Schwickert$^*$ and T. Vorberg$^*$ and J.
Wischhusen$^*$ and A. Stenzinger and M. Zapatka$^*$ and P.
Lichter$^*$ and A. Schneeweiss and A. Trumpp$^*$ and M.
Sprick$^*$},
title = {{B}iopsy-derived organoids in personalised early breast
cancer care: {C}hallenges of tumour purity and normal cell
overgrowth cap their practical utility.},
journal = {International journal of cancer},
volume = {156},
number = {11},
issn = {0020-7136},
address = {Bognor Regis},
publisher = {Wiley-Liss},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-00463},
pages = {2200-2209},
year = {2025},
note = {#EA:A010#LA:A010# / 2025 Jun 1;156(11):2200-2209},
abstract = {The ability to establish organoids composed exclusively of
tumour rather than healthy cells is essential for their
implementation into clinical practice. Organoids have
recently emerged as a powerful tool to expand patient
material in culture and generate modifiable 3D models
derived from humans or animal models. For translational
research, they enable the creation of model systems for an
ever-increasing number of cell types and diseases. And in
personalised medicine, they potentially allow for functional
drug testing with high predictive power in certain settings.
We found that using biopsy material from untreated,
early-stage primary breast cancer patients poses significant
challenges for consistently culturing tumour cells as
organoids. Specifically, we observed frequent outgrowth of
genetically normal, non-cancerous epithelial cells. We
analysed >100 biopsy samples from early-stage breast cancer
and present our large collection of >70 organoid lines. We
also show methods of assessing successful tumour cell
culture in a time, and cost-efficient manner, proving a high
rate $(>85\%)$ of normal cell overgrowth in early-stage
breast cancer organoids. Finally, we show a number of
successful attempts to culture cancer organoids from
mastectomy-derived tissue of advanced, metastatic breast
cancer. We conclude that the usefulness of organoids from
early breast cancer for translational research and
personalised medicine, especially guidance of adjuvant or
post-surgical maintenance therapy, is strongly limited by
the low success rate of culturing cancerous cells under
organoid conditions.},
keywords = {breast cancer (Other) / genomics (Other) / organoids
(Other) / personalized medicine (Other) / quality control
(Other)},
cin = {A010 / B060},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)A010-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)B060-20160331},
pnm = {311 - Zellbiologie und Tumorbiologie (POF4-311)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-311},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40022208},
doi = {DOI:10.1002/ijc.35386},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/299505},
}