Rapid, quantitative prediction of tumor invasiveness in non-melanoma skin cancers using mechanobiology-based assay.

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
Sally KortamDaphne Weihs

Abstract

Non-melanoma skin cancers, including basal and squamous cell carcinomas (BCC and SCC), are the most common malignancies worldwide. BCC/SCC cancers are generally highly localized and can be surgically excised; however, invasive tumors may be fatal. Current diagnosis of skin cancer and prognosis of potential invasiveness are based mainly on clinical-pathological factors of the biopsied lesions. SCC invasiveness is also predicted by histomorphological factors, such as the degree of differentiation or the mitotic index, while BCCs are typically considered non-invasive. The above subjective measures do not provide direct, objective prognosis of cellular invasiveness in each specific sample. Hence, we have developed a mechanobiology-based approach to rapidly determine sample invasiveness. Here, cells from 15 fresh tissue samples of suspected non-melanoma skin cancer were seeded on physiological-stiffness (2.4 kPa) synthetic gels, and within 1-h invasive cell subsets were observed to push/indent the gel surface; clinicopathological results were separately obtained using standard protocols. The percentage of indenting cells from invasive (26.2 ± 2.4%) and non-invasive (4.8 ± 0.5%) SCC samples differed significantly (p < 0.0001), with w...Continue Reading

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