Translational screening platform to evaluate chemotherapy in combination with focal therapy for retinoblastoma.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_FC65E56A6E35
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Translational screening platform to evaluate chemotherapy in combination with focal therapy for retinoblastoma.
Journal
Cancer science
Author(s)
Sinenko I.L., Kuttler F., Simeonov V., Moulin A., Aouad P., Stathopoulos C., Munier F.L., Berger A., Dyson P.J.
ISSN
1349-7006 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1347-9032
Publication state
Published
Issued date
09/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
114
Number
9
Pages
3728-3739
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Retinoblastoma is the most common pediatric eye cancer. It is currently treated with a limited number of drugs, adapted from other pediatric cancer treatments. Drug toxicity and relapse of the disease warrant new therapeutic strategies for these young patients. In this study, we developed a robust tumoroid-based platform to test chemotherapeutic agents in combination with focal therapy (thermotherapy) - a treatment option widely used in clinical practice - in accordance with clinically relevant trial protocols. The model consists of matrix-embedded tumoroids that retain retinoblastoma features and respond to repeated chemotherapeutic drug exposure similarly to advanced clinical cases. Moreover, the screening platform includes a diode laser (810 nm, 0.3 W) to selectively heat the tumoroids, combined with an on-line system to monitor the intratumoral and surrounding temperatures. This allows the reproduction of the clinical settings of thermotherapy and combined chemothermotherapy treatments. When testing the two main drugs currently used in clinics to treat retinoblastoma in our model, we observed results similar to those clinically obtained, validating the utility of the model. This screening platform is the first system to accurately reproduce clinically relevant treatment methods and should lead to the identification of more efficient drugs to treat retinoblastoma.
Keywords
Child, Humans, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use, Combined Modality Therapy, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/drug therapy, Retinal Neoplasms/drug therapy, Retinoblastoma/drug therapy, cancer chemotherapy protocol, chemotherapy, chemothermotherapy, preclinical model, retinoblastoma, thermotherapy
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Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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