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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Small. 2019 Nov 13;15(50):e1901985. doi: 10.1002/smll.201901985

Table 1:

Summary of Cancer-on-Chip Studies

No. Cancer type Method Result Authors Year Ref.
1. Breast cancer Microfluidic 3D in vitro model for breast cancer metastasis to bone 3D in vitro data on extravasation and micrometastasis generation of breast cancer cells within bone microenvironment Bersini et al. 2014 (51)
2. Breast cancer 3D bone-on-chip for bone metastasis study of breast cancer cells Unique hallmarks of breast cancer bone in colonization observed, previously only seen in vivo Hao et al. 2018 (50)
3. Breast cancer Disease-on-a-chip model in which cancer grows within phenotypically normal breast luminal epithelium on semicircular acrylic supports Mimicry of tumor environment provides a framework for the design and test of anti-cancer therapies Vidi et al. 2014 (54)
4. Breast cancer 3D high-throughput microfluidic platform for screening of three triple negative breast cancer lines against several anti-cancer drugs High-throughput organ on a chip platform to select therapies in personalized medicine Lanz et al. 2017 (12)
5. Cancer immune interactions Organ-on-chip tool to evaluate cancer-immune cell interactions Quantitative confirmation of the essential role of FPR1 in cancer chemotherapy response Biselli et al. 2017 (60)
6. Lung cancer Multi-organ microfluidic chip mimicking in vivo microenvironment of lung cancer metastasis Multi-organ system provides useful tool to investigate cell-cell interactions in metastasis Xu et al. 2016 (53)
7. Lung Organ-on-chip model recapitulates orthotopic lung cancer growth and therapeutic response Discovery of mechanical stimuli dependent TKI therapy resistance Hassell et al. 2017 (52)
8. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Microfluidic 3D platform for culturing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells Growth characteristics closer to those of cells grown as spheroids than as classical 2 dimensional (2D) in vitro cultures. Beer et al. 2017 (13)