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Human xenograft osteosarcoma models with spontaneous metastasis in mice: clinical relevance and applicability for drug testing

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Osteosarcoma cells derived from patients have been isolated and subsequently cultured for the past 35 years. To date though, there have been no major break-throughs in the development of a model for osteosarcoma that uses orthotopic implantation of human osteosarcoma cells and that closely emulates the clinical progression of this debilitating and fatal disease. Such a model is long overdue given the devastating demographics (second highest cause of cancer-related death in the paediatric age group) of the ailment and the lack of solid options for control, if not cure, for the disease, as it also is the most common primary tumour of bone. Only then can more robust R & D be undertaken in the search for efficacious anti-osteosarcoma agents. This review tackles this conundrum and lists the variety of models (that use human osteosarcoma cells) available and the types of studies performed with these.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Victorian Orthopaedic Research Trust Grant, Cancer Council of Victoria, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NH&MRC).

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Hospital, P.O. Box 2900, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, 3065

    Crispin R. Dass, Eugene T. H. Ek & Peter F. M. Choong

  2. Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Service, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia

    Peter F. M. Choong

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Dass, C.R., Ek, E.T.H. & Choong, P.F.M. Human xenograft osteosarcoma models with spontaneous metastasis in mice: clinical relevance and applicability for drug testing . J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 133, 193–198 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-006-0157-x

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