Ex vivo modelling of drug efficacy in a rare metastatic urachal carcinoma.
Rami MäkeläAntti ArjonenVille HärmäNina RintanenLauri PaasonenTobias PaprotkaKerstin RönschTeijo KuopioJuha KononenJuha K RantalaPublished in: BMC cancer (2020)
All the tested ex vivo drug screening methods captured the patient's tumor cells' sensitivity to drugs that could be associated with the oncogenic KRASG12V mutation found in the patient's tumor cells. Specific drug classes however resulted in differential dose response profiles dependent on the used cell culture method indicating that the choice of assay could bias results from ex vivo drug screening assays for selected drug classes.