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Organoid drug profiling identifies methotrexate as a therapy for SCCOHT, a rare pediatric cancer.

Seok-Young Kim, Tamar A E de Weert, Marijn Vermeulen, Femke Ringnalda, Lennart Kester, Jozsef Zsiros, Selma Eising, Jan J Molenaar, Karin Sanders, Marc van de Wetering and 1 more

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Seok-Young KimPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8566-839X
Tamar A E de WeertPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5976-023X
Marijn VermeulenPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8926-1140
Femke RingnaldaPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0684-4613
Lennart KesterPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8259-9971
Jozsef ZsirosPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6716-4347
Selma EisingPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Jan J MolenaarPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2007-0431
Karin SandersPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9634-9853
Marc van de WeteringPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8195-9939
Hans CleversPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3077-5582

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT) is a rare and lethal tumor in adolescent and young adult patients. Now, there is no standard-of-care treatment for these patients. Reliable models that represent this disease and can be used for translational research are scarce. To model SCCOHTs, we have established eight patient-derived tumoroid lines from tumor lesions of three patients with SCCOHT. The tumoroids recapitulate genomic and transcriptomic characteristics of the corresponding patient tumors and capture intrapatient tumor heterogeneity. Organoid drug profiling using a library of 153 clinical compounds identified methotrexate as an effective and selective drug against SCCOHTs with a clinically relevant IC

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MethotrexateOrganoidsAdolescentApoptosisCell Line, TumorChildFemaleHumansTumor Suppressor Protein p53MethotrexateTumor Suppressor Protein p53

Identifiers

PMID40009666
PMCPMC11864178

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