Since taking part as leading actors in driving the metastatic process, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have displayed a wide range of potential applications in the cancer-related research field. Besides their well-proved prognostic value, the role of CTCs in both predictive and diagnostics terms might be extremely informative about cancer properties and therefore highly helpful in the clinical decision-making process. Unfortunately, CTCs are scarcely released in the blood circulation and their counts vary a lot among different types of cancer, therefore CTC detection and consequent characterization are still highly challenging. In this context, in vitro CTC cultures could potentially offer a great opportunity to expand the number of tumor cells isolated at different stages of the disease and thus simplify the analysis of their biological and molecular features, allowing a deeper comprehension of the nature of neoplastic diseases. The aim of this review is to highlight the main attempts to establish in vitro CTC cultures from patients harboring different tumor types in order to highlight how powerful this practice could be, especially in optimizing the therapeutic strategies available in clinical practice and potentially preventing or contrasting the development of treatment resistance.

In vitro cultures of circulating tumor cells: a potential tool to unravel drug sensitivity / de Renzi, G.; de Marco, G.; de Meo, M.; Del Rosso, E.; Gazzaniga, P.; Nicolazzo, C.. - In: CANCER DRUG RESISTANCE. - ISSN 2578-532X. - 5:1(2022), pp. 245-260. [10.20517/cdr.2021.121]

In vitro cultures of circulating tumor cells: a potential tool to unravel drug sensitivity

de Renzi G.;de Meo M.;Gazzaniga P.;Nicolazzo C.
2022

Abstract

Since taking part as leading actors in driving the metastatic process, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have displayed a wide range of potential applications in the cancer-related research field. Besides their well-proved prognostic value, the role of CTCs in both predictive and diagnostics terms might be extremely informative about cancer properties and therefore highly helpful in the clinical decision-making process. Unfortunately, CTCs are scarcely released in the blood circulation and their counts vary a lot among different types of cancer, therefore CTC detection and consequent characterization are still highly challenging. In this context, in vitro CTC cultures could potentially offer a great opportunity to expand the number of tumor cells isolated at different stages of the disease and thus simplify the analysis of their biological and molecular features, allowing a deeper comprehension of the nature of neoplastic diseases. The aim of this review is to highlight the main attempts to establish in vitro CTC cultures from patients harboring different tumor types in order to highlight how powerful this practice could be, especially in optimizing the therapeutic strategies available in clinical practice and potentially preventing or contrasting the development of treatment resistance.
2022
Biomarker evaluation; Cell cultures; Circulating tumor cell cultures; Circulating tumor cells; Drug sensitivity; Liquid biopsy; Liquid tumor biomarkers; Precision medicine
01 Pubblicazione su rivista::01g Articolo di rassegna (Review)
In vitro cultures of circulating tumor cells: a potential tool to unravel drug sensitivity / de Renzi, G.; de Marco, G.; de Meo, M.; Del Rosso, E.; Gazzaniga, P.; Nicolazzo, C.. - In: CANCER DRUG RESISTANCE. - ISSN 2578-532X. - 5:1(2022), pp. 245-260. [10.20517/cdr.2021.121]
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