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

Sinenko, Irina L.  
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Kuttler, Fabien  
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Simeonov, Valentin  
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June 20, 2023
Cancer Science

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.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/cas.15878
Web of Science ID

WOS:001015518500001

Author(s)
Sinenko, Irina L.  
Kuttler, Fabien  
Simeonov, Valentin  
Moulin, Alexandre
Aouad, Patrick
Stathopoulos, Christina
Munier, Francis L.
Berger, Adeline
Dyson, Paul J.  
Date Issued

2023-06-20

Publisher

WILEY

Published in
Cancer Science
Subjects

Oncology

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Oncology

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cancer chemotherapy protocol

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chemotherapy

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chemothermotherapy

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preclinical model

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retinoblastoma

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thermotherapy

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indocyanine green

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in-vitro

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transpupillary thermotherapy

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cell-line

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management

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disease

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classification

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hyperthermia

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cisplatin

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drugs

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