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Erschienen in: Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 6/2019

12.09.2019 | Original Article

A reliable method to determine which candidate chemotherapeutic drugs effectively inhibit tumor growth in patient-derived xenografts (PDX) in single mouse trials

verfasst von: Derek Gordon, David E. Axelrod

Erschienen in: Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology | Ausgabe 6/2019

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Abstract

Purpose

We report on a statistical method for grouping anti-cancer drugs (GRAD) in single mouse trials (SMT). The method assigns candidate drugs into groups that inhibit or do not inhibit tumor growth in patient-derived xenografts (PDX). It determines the statistical significance of the group assignments without replicate trials of each drug.

Methods

The GRAD method applies a longitudinal finite mixture model, implemented in the statistical package PROC TRAJ, to analyze a mixture of tumor growth curves for portions of the same tumor in different mice, each single mouse exposed to a different drug. Each drug is classified into an inhibitory or non-inhibitory group. There are several advantages to the GRAD method for SMT. It determines that probability that the grouping is correct, uses the entire longitudinal tumor growth curve data for each drug treatment, can fit different shape growth curves, accounts for missing growth curve data, and accommodates growth curves of different time periods.

Results

We analyzed data for 22 drugs for 18 human colorectal tumors provided by researchers in a previous publication. The GRAD method identified 18 drugs that were inhibitory against at least one tumor, and 10 tumors for which there was at least one inhibitory drug. Analysis of simulated data indicated that the GRAD method has a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 98%.

Conclusion

A statistical method, GRAD, can group anti-cancer drugs into those that are inhibitory and those that are non-inhibitory in single mouse trials and provide probabilities that the grouping is correct.
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Metadaten
Titel
A reliable method to determine which candidate chemotherapeutic drugs effectively inhibit tumor growth in patient-derived xenografts (PDX) in single mouse trials
verfasst von
Derek Gordon
David E. Axelrod
Publikationsdatum
12.09.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology / Ausgabe 6/2019
Print ISSN: 0344-5704
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-019-03942-y

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