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Biopsies were taken and grown into miniature 3D cancerous organs in the lab.
100% accurate at telling which drugs would fail in advanced colorectal cancer.
If the drug worked in the organoids, it worked 88% of the time in the patient.
Organoids treated with same drug doctors gave to the patient in the clinic.
Personalised medicine should lead to smarter, kinder and more effective treatments.
The study was published in the Science journal.
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Consultant Medical Oncologist and Director of Clinical Research at The Royal Marsden in London and Surrey.
Team Leader of Gastrointestinal Cancer Biology and Genomics at The Institute Of Cancer Research.
Peer-reviewed academic online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
One of the world’s most influential cancer research organizations
