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. 2020 Nov 2;9:21. doi: 10.1186/s13619-020-00059-z

Table 3.

List of biobanks of different tumor types

Organ of origin Number of lines a Histological subtypes Efficiency Year Ref.
Colon 22 Adenocarcinomas 90% 2015 (van de Wetering et al. 2015)
Colorectum 8 Colorectal metastases 71% 2015 (Weeber et al. 2015)
Colorectum 55

Premalignant lesions (tubular and tubulovillous adenomas, sessile serrated lesions, and a hyperplastic polyp)

Adenocarcinomas (well differentiated, moderately differentiated, poorly differentiated, mucinous, not specified)

Metastases of adenocarcinomas

Neuroendocrine carcinomas

100% 2016 (Fujii et al. 2016)
Colorectum 35 NR 60% 2017 (Schütte et al. 2017)
Colorectum 34 Colorectal metastases 63% 2019 (Ooft et al. 2019)
Rectum 71 Cystic fibrosis NR 2016 (Dekkers et al. 2016)
Rectum 65 Adenocarcinoma 77% 2019 (Ganesh et al. 2019)
Rectum 80 locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma 85.7% 2019 (Yao et al. 2020)
Pancreas 8 Ductal adenocarcinomas 80% 2015 (Boj et al. 2015)
Pancreas 17 Ductal adenocarcinomas 85% 2015 (Huang et al. 2015b)
Pancreas 39 Ductal adenocarcinomas 88% 2018 (Seino et al. 2018)
Pancreas 114 Ductal adenocarcinomas 75% 2018 (Tiriac et al. 2018)
Pancreas 30

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Acinar cell carcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma

Adenosquamous Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm-derived Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Papilla of Vater adenocarcinoma

60% 2019 (Driehuis et al. 2019c)
Liver 8

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Cholangiocellular carcinoma

100% 2017 (Broutier et al. 2017)
Liver 13 Hepatocellular carcinomaCholangiocellular carcinomaLymphoepithelioma-like cholangiocarcinoma 33% 2017 (Nuciforo et al. 2018)
Biliary Tract 6 Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomaPancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaGallbladder cancerNeuroendocrine carcinoma 42% 2019 (Saito et al. 2019)
Prostate 7 Adenocarcinoma metastases Circulating tumor cells 15-20% 2014 (Gao et al. 2014)
Bladder 22 Papillary urothelial carcinomaUrothelial carcinomaSquamous cell carcinoma 70% 2018 (Lee et al. 2018)
Breast 95

Ductal carcinoma

Lobular carcinoma

80% 2018 (Sachs et al. 2018)
Ovary 33 High-grade serous carcinoma 100% 2018 (Hill et al. 2018)
Ovary 56

Borderline tumors (both mucinous and serous)

Clear cell carcinomas

Endometrioid carcinomas

Mucinous carcinomas

Low-grade serous carcinomas

High-grade serous carcinomas

65% 2019 (Kopper et al. 2019)
Head and Neck 31 Squamous cell carcinoma 60 2019 (Driehuis et al. 2019a)
Brain 70 Glioblastoma 91.4% 2020 (Jacob et al. 2020)
Mixedb 56 Tumors from prostate, breast, colorectal, esophagus, brain, pancreas, lung, small intestine, ovary, uterus, soft tissue (not further specified), bladder, ureter, kidney 38.6% 2017 (Pauli et al. 2017a, 2017b)
Mixed 62

Metastatic colorectal cancer

Metastatic gastroesophageal cancer

Metastatic cholangiocarcinoma

70% 2018 (Vlachogiannis et al. 2018)
Mixed (ALI) 49 Tumors from lung (adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma), kidney (clear cell carcinoma, papillary carcinoma, Wilms tumor and chromophobe carcinoma) and thyroid (papillary carcinoma) 76% 2018 (Neal et al. 2018)

NR Not reported

aRefers to the number of organoid lines reported not the number of patients (for some patients, multiple lines were established)

bHistological types were not comprehensively reported