We have applied an in vitro soft-agar tumor-colony assay (which is now applicable to a variety of human cancers) to measurement of in vitro sensitivity to drugs and prediction of clinical response to cancer chemotherapy. The assay predicts drug resistance with 96% accuracy and sensitivity (in healthy pretreated patients) with 62% accuracy. On a pharmacokinetic basis the zone in vitro sensitivity for any given drug was only 5%-10% of the clinical concentration-time product (Cxt) achievable. This suggests that intratumoral drug concentrations in vivo may be lower than those in the plasma, and/or that > 2 log kills of tumor stem cells (not measurable in the assay) are required for clinical response. Serial in vitro studies showed that acquisition of drug resistance is a common clinical phenomenon which can be directly detected and quantitated in vitro.
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Salmon, S. E., Alberts, D. S., Durie, B. G., Meyskens, F. L., Jones, S. E., Soehnlen, B., … Moon, T. (1980). Clinical correlations of drug sensitivity in the human tumor stem cell assay. Recent Results in Cancer Research. Fortschritte Der Krebsforschung. Progrès Dans Les Recherches Sur Le Cancer, 74, 300–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81488-4_36
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