Research progress on osteosarcoma treatment in the precision medicine era / 中国肿瘤临床

With the rapid development of omics and big data technology, there have been multiple achievements with the use of pre-cision medicine for cancer treatment. Osteosarcoma, the most common primary malignant tumor of the skeletal system, primarily oc-curs in children and adolescents. Since the 1970s, surgical resection and chemotherapy have been the main treatments for osteosarco-ma; however, the survival rate for this type of cancer has been stagnant due to high genetic heterogeneity. Precision medicine can pro-vide a precise diagnosis and tailored treatments based on the patients’biological characteristics using techniques such as omics. Therefore, application of precision medicine is promising for studying osteosarcoma and improving patient survival rates. This study aims to systematically review the progress of precision medicine in advancing osteosarcoma treatment. In addition, it discusses the prospects and future direction of osteosarcoma precision treatment.

Chemoterapeutic drug screening based on patient?derived pancreatic cancer xenograft(PDX)models / 中国实验动物学报

Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect of chemotherapeutic drugs on pancreatic carcinoma based on patient-derived xenograft(PDX)models,and to screen an individualized treatment strategy. Methods Fresh human pancreatic carcinoma tissues were subcutaneously transplanted into nude mice to establish PDX models which could be stab-ly passaged. The traceability of PDX models was determined by STR analysis. The PDX models were treated with three dif-ferent clinical chemotherapeutic drugs oxaliplatin, gemcitabine and irinotecan, respectively, and the tumor volumes were measured at different times. The therapeutic effect of those drugs was assessed by TGD mathematical model and plasma CA19-9 test. Results The traceability of patient-derived xenograft samples was up to 99.99%. Compared with the con-trol group,the treatment with irinotecan and gemcitabine inhibited tumor growth significantly(P=0.001), and gemcit-abine had even better result. The minimum toxic effect in the mice was induced by irinotecan treatment,followed by gem-citabine treatment. Conclusions Pancreatic carcinoma PDX models are successfully established and can be stably pas-saged. Gemcitabine shows the most inhibitory effect on tumor growth based on TGD mathematical model assessment, and deserves to be recommended as the preferred drug for individual treatment of pancreatic carcinoma.