Device Tests Drugs on Tumor Tissue

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  • TBMG-36828
Published May 01, 2020 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Testing cancer treatments relies mostly on trial and error; patients may undergo multiple time-consuming and hard-to-tolerate therapies in pursuit of one that works. Recent innovations in pharmaceutical development involve growing artificial tumors to test drugs on specific cancer types. These models take weeks to grow and don’t account for an individual patient’s biological makeup, which can affect treatment efficacy.