• 1. The First Clinical College of Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
ZHU Kexiang, Email: flexzhu6910@163.com
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Objective To summarize the clinical application and future application prospects of organoid model in pancreatic cancer. Method The domestic and foreign literature related on the application of organoid model in pancreatic cancer was reviewed. Results In recent years, the organoid model of pancreatic cancer was constructed mainly using patient-derived tissues, fine-needle aspiration samples, and human pluripotent stem cells. The biomarkers of pancreatic cancer were screened according to the histological and structural heterogeneities of the primary tumor retained in organoid model, such as microRNA, glypican-1, annexin A6 and protein biomarkers cytokeratin 7 and 20, cell tumor antigen p53, Claudin-4, carbohydrate antigen 19-9, etc.in the extracellular vesicles. The results of organoid model could maintain the original tumor characteristics and the higher correlation between the organoid model drug sensitivity data and the clinical results of pancreatic cancer patients suggested that, the drug sensitivity data of organoid model could be used to avoid ineffective chemotherapy, so as to improve the treatment response rate and reduce the toxicity of chemical drug treatment, and reasonably select individualized treatment plans for pancreatic cancer patients in future. Conclusions Organoid model has many research in screening biomarkers of pancreatic cancer, individualized drug screening, and drug sensitivity test. It can simulate the complex pathophysiological characteristics of pancreatic cancer in vitro, and retain the physiological characteristics and gene phenotype of original tumor cells. It is expected to become a new platform for selecting biomarkers of pancreatic cancer, testing drug sensitivity, and formulating individualized treatment methods for pancreatic cancer, which might further accelerate the research progress of pancreatic cancer.

Citation: PENG Lei, ZHU Kexiang. Research progress of organoid model in pancreatic cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2023, 30(7): 863-869. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202302021 Copy

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