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. 2022 Jul 12;10(7):1677. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10071677

Table 2.

Current lung organoid/tumoroid models.

Primary Tumor Histology, (Mutations) * Technology Name Culture Time Applications Ref.
NS Patient-derived tumor spheroid (PDS) 120 days Mechanistic studies
Resistant models
Drug screening
[38]
ADK, SCC, LCC Lung cancer organoids >1 year Drug screening [39]
ADK, SCC, LCC Patient-derived lung cancer organoids >6 months Patient-specific drugs screening
Living biobank as support to xenograft model
[24]
ADK, SCC NSCLC organoids 3 months Drug screening [37]
ADK, SCC NSCLC (EGFR, KRAS) Patient-derived organoids models (PDOs) NS Genomic analyses
Production of treatment response
[40]
NSCLC (EGFR, KRAS) Patient lung-derived tumoroids (PLDTs) NS Drug screening [41]
ADK, SCC, LCC, NSCLC Lung cancer organoids NS Personalized medicine [36]
NS Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) 2–3 months Drug screening
Comparative analysis
[42]
ADK Lung ADK (LADC)-derived organoid model >50–200 days Transcriptome analysis
Biomarkers discovery
Drug screening
Living biobank
[35]
ADK and SCC Lung cancer organoids 6 days Drug screening [43]
ADK and SCC primary or metastatic NSCLC Patient-derived tumoroids (PDTs) >13 months Generation of cell lines [44]
ADK Patient-derived tumoroids (PDTs) 4 days Mimic the tumor vascular network
PDTs ready to use in microfluidic device for drug screening
[45]

* ADK: adenocarcinoma; SCC: squamous cell carcinoma; LCC: large cell carcinoma, NS: non specified.