RESEARCHERS GROW BREAST TISSUE IN A LAB TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CANCERS THAT GROW THERE Original By Alexandra Ossola Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) A mammogram, used to identify cancerous breast tissue – Nevit Dilmen via Wikimedia Commons From edible meat to entire rat arms, scientists can grow pretty much anything in a petri dish. But
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From the BBC:- It may be possible to “soften-up” cancers before hitting them with chemotherapy drugs, researchers suggest. A study, published in the Cancer Cell, uncovered how tumours can become resistant to commonly used drugs. The University of Manchester team suggest drugs already in development may be able to counter this resistance to make chemotherapy
Personalised medicine is becoming precision medicine n the fight against cancer. The present concern is with combining the several drugs that the patient may require into a cocktail to fight their disease. How these drugs interact with each other and how they then affect the patient as a result, is unknown. Lab tests only go