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A step toward personalized cancer treatment in a clinical setting
on September 28, 2012
Doctors can take person's tumor cell, grow it in culture, and test drugs to find effective drugs to treat the patients
Publised today in New England Journal of Medicine, doctors can grow "mini tumours" from each patient's cancer in a lab dish, then test various drugs or combinations on them to see which works best. It takes only a few cells from a biopsy and less than two weeks to do. The approch showed promosing results. Personalized medicine works.
Here is the paper: Use of Reprogrammed Cells to Identify Therapy for Respiratory Papillomatosis, N Engl J Med, 367:1220-1227, 2012