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Ex vivo modelling of drug efficacy in a rare metastatic urachal carcinoma.
BMC cancer - 23 Jun 2020
Mäkelä Rami, Arjonen Antti, Härmä Ville, Rintanen Nina, Paasonen Lauri, Paprotka Tobias, Rönsch Kerstin, Kuopio Teijo, Kononen Juha, Rantala Juha K
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BACKGROUND: Ex vivo drug screening refers to the out-of-body assessment of drug efficacy in patient derived vital tumor cells. The purpose of these methods is to enable functional testing of patient specific efficacy of anti-cancer therapeutics and personalized treatment strategies. Such approaches could prove powerful especially in context of rare cancers for which demonstration of novel therapies is difficult...
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