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. 2023 Dec;513(Suppl 1):S96-S99.
doi: 10.1134/S1607672923700692. Epub 2024 Feb 9.

Assessing the Efficacy of Anti-Cancer Drugs on Organoid Models Derived from Prostate Cancer

M O Silkina  1 , A V Razumovskaya  2 , S V Nikulin  2   3 , A G Tonevitsky  2 , B Ya Alekseev  3
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Assessing the Efficacy of Anti-Cancer Drugs on Organoid Models Derived from Prostate Cancer

M O Silkina et al. Dokl Biochem Biophys. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

It was proven that tumor organoids effectively mirror the phenotypic and genetic traits of the original biomaterial. It was reported that outcomes from drug testing in organoid cultures can accurately represent the clinical response observed in patients. In this study, an organoid culture was derived from biopsy material of prostate cancer (PC). Subsequently, clinical practice drugs, docetaxel and enzalutamide, were tested on this organoid culture. Various techniques for evaluating the efficacy of drugs in vitro were compared. The half-maximal inhibitory concentration of docetaxel was found to be markedly lower compared to that of enzalutamide. However, when tested at clinically relevant concentrations and incubation times, enzalutamide was more effective than docetaxel. Therefore, it is crucial to optimize the testing conditions for drugs on in vitro cultures for their subsequent application in clinical practice.

Keywords: docetaxel; drug test; enzalutamide; organoids; prostate cancer.

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