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Table 3 CTC-organoid established to date

From: The functional and clinical roles of liquid biopsy in patient-derived models

Tumor type

Stage

CTC counts

Enrichment and characterization

Culture condition

Number

Success rate (%)

References

PCa

Castration-resistant

 > 100/8 ml

RosetteSep

Advanced DMEM/F12

1

N/A

[16]

Metastatic

 >  = 5/7.5 ml

EpCAM+ (CellSearch)

DLA + RosetteSep + CellSearch/DLA + RosetteSep

Adjusted prostate cancer organoid medium (APCOM)

14

35

[67]

Lung cancer

Early-stage

1–11/1 ml

CK7/8

(confocal)

A microfluidic CTC-capture device

With fibroblasts extracellular matrix on a microfluidic chip

14

73

[68]

SCLC

Limited-stage or extensive-stage

8–433/7.5 ml

IsoFlux

RosetteSep

In DMEM/F12 medium on binary colloidal crystals

18

81.8

[69]

HNC

Stage I–IV

N/A

RosetteSep

Seeded onto a binary colloidal crystal (BCC) substrate and cultured in DMEM/F12 medium

37

92.50

[70]

PDAC

Stage II–IV

N/A

RosetteSep

Seeded onto a binary colloidal crystal (BCC) substrate and cultured in DMEM/F12 medium

36

87.8

[71]

  1. N/A, not available; PCa, prostate cancer; CTC, circulating tumor cell; DLA, diagnostic leukapheresis; SCLC, small cell lung cancer; EpCAM, epithelial cell adhesion molecule; DMEM, Dulbecco's modified eagle medium; HNC, head and neck cancer; PDAC, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma