Antitumor effects in gas plasma-treated patient-derived microtissues—an adjuvant therapy for ulcerating breast cancer?

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Despite global research and continuous improvement in therapy, cancer remains a chal-lenging disease globally, substantiating the need for new treatment avenues. Medical gas plasma technology has emerged as a promising approach in oncology in the last years. Several investiga-tions have provided evidence of an antitumor action in vitro and in vivo, including our recent work on plasma-mediated reduction of breast cancer in mice. However, studies of gas plasma exposure on patient-derived tumors with their distinct microenvironment (TME) are scarce. To this end, we here investigated patient-derived breast cancer tissue after gas plasma-treated ex vivo. The tissues were disjoint to pieces smaller than 100 µm, embedded in collagen, and incubated for several days. The viability of the breast cancer tissue clusters and their outgrowth into their gel microenvironment declined with plasma treatment. This was associated with caspase 3-dependent apoptotic cell death, paralleled by an increased expression of the anti-metastatic adhesion molecule epithelial (E)-cadherin. Multiplex chemokine/cytokine analysis revealed a marked decline in the release of the interleukins 6 and 8 (IL-6, IL-8) and monocyte-chemoattractant-protein 1 (MCP) known to promote a cancer-promoting milieu in the TME. In summary, we provide here, for the first time, evidence of a beneficial activity of gas plasma exposure on human patient-derived breast cancer tissue.

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Akbari, Z., Saadati, F., Mahdikia, H., Freund, E., Abbasvandi, F., Shokri, B., … Bekeschus, S. (2021). Antitumor effects in gas plasma-treated patient-derived microtissues—an adjuvant therapy for ulcerating breast cancer? Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 11(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/app11104527

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