416P - Three-dimensional bioprinting model of ovarian cancer for identification of patient-specific therapy response

Background

Ovarian cancer (OC), the most malignant gynecological tumor, exhibits diverse therapeutic responses. Patient-derived in vitro models for drug screening offer an individualized approach to overcome interpatient heterogeneity. Bypassing the limitations of xenografts and organoids, 3D bioprinting (3DP) offers high-throughput, high fidelity, and a drug screening timeline of 8 days, which is of clinical significance. We hereby reported the establishment of patient-derived 3DP-OC models with personalized drug sensitivity results in 41 patients.

Methods

Tumor specimens of newly diagnosed OC patients were collected at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) from 2022-07 to 2023-07, with informed consent and PUMCH ethics committee approval. Tumors were digested into cell suspensions and mixed with GelMA to a final concentration of 1×10⁷cell/mL. 3DP-OC was fabricated by an extrusion-based bioprinter, and treated with a panel of chemo- and targeted therapy drugs in dose gradients at DIV 5. Cell viability was measured by CellTiter-Glo® assay after 72 hours for dose-response curves and IC₅₀.

Results

We have established 3DP-OC in 41 cases, including 34 high-grade serous ovarian cancer, 4 ovarian clear cell carcinoma, 1 ovarian sarcoma, 1 endometrioid carcinoma and 1 neuroendocrine tumor. The success rate was 100% with consistent viability during bioprinting and extended culture of up to 2 weeks. IHC and IF staining verified the comparable expression of OC markers and Ki-67 between 3DP-OC and tumor tissue. Interpatient heterogeneous response of drugs was observed in paclitaxel, carboplatin, cisplatin, doxorubicin, niraparib, olaparib, anlotinib and lenvatinib. Drug synergy of paclitaxel and carboplatin, first-line treatment of OC, were tested on 5 cases with disparate responses. One of which was clear cell carcinoma with frequent clinical resistance to platin-based therapy, urging a necessity of personalized therapy.

Conclusions

We established 3DP-OC on 41 cases with exceptional efficiency. 3DP-OC demonstrated diverse drug responses, underlining its potential for precision medicine. Our ongoing research aims to correlate 3DP-OC drug responses with clinical outcomes.

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Editorial acknowledgement

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The authors.

Funding

This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2021-I2M-1-058), National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (2022-PUMCH-045, 2022-PUMCH-B-034) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (32271470).

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.