A preclinical model of patient-derived cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor cells for experimental therapeutics in leptomeningeal disease from melanoma

Abstract

Leptomeningeal disease (LMD) occurs as a late complication of several human cancers and has no rationally designed treatment options. A major barrier to developing effective therapies for LMD is the lack of cell-based or preclinical models that recapitulate human disease. Here, we describe the development of in vitro and in vivo cultures of patient-derived cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor cells (PD-CSF-CTCs) from patients with melanoma as a preclinical model to identify exploitable vulnerabilities in melanoma LMD.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Feb 25, 2022
Source ID
10.1093/neuonc/noac054

Entities

People

  • Ann Chen
  • Arnold B. Etame
  • Brian J. Czerniecki
  • Brittany R Evernden
  • Derek Duckett
  • Francesca Vena
  • Gisela Caceres
  • Inna Smalley
  • James K C Liu
  • John Puskas
  • Joseph Johnson
  • Keiran S M Smalley
  • Michael Vogelbaum
  • Nam Tran
  • Paulo C Rodriguez
  • Peter A. Forsyth
  • Robert Macaulay
  • Simon Bayle
  • Vincent Law
  • Yolanda Pina
  • Zhihua Chen

Organizations

  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • United States Department of Defense

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Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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