Lab-grown ‘mini tumours’ could personalise cancer treatment Testing cancer drugs on miniature replicas of a patient’s tumour could help doctors tailor treatment, according to new research. Researchers treated the lab-grown ‘mini tumours’ with a range of drugs. They then looked to see how this compared to how successful treatment was in those patients. The approach found a drug that had …

Growing miniature tumours in the lab could help doctors discover the best way to treat each patient, homing in on the right drugs to use. Nicola Valeri, of the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, and his team have shown this by taking 110 biopsies from tumours. These were all secondary tumours from 71 people with cancers that had spread …