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Patient's cancer cells placed in hundreds of tiny wells on multiple test plates.
Within two to three days, they grow into three-dimensional mini-tumours.
Different drugs and drug concentrations tested on these tumour organoids.
Both small molecules and larger compounds can penetrate the cancer cells.
Researchers able to determine which drugs the cancers were most sensitive to.
The researchers used ovarian and peritoneal cancer cells.
Study led by Alice Soragni at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and it was published in Communications Biology.
