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NPJ PRECISION ONCOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41698-020-0117-y
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- National Cancer Institute [R01 CA181445-01A1]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia of Mexico
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Current methods to assess the drug response of individual human cancers are often inaccurate, costly, or slow. Functional approaches that rapidly and directly assess the response of patient cancer tissue to drugs or small molecules offer a promising way to improve drug testing, and have the potential to identify the best therapy for individual patients. We developed a digitally manufactured microfluidic platform for multiplexed drug testing of intact cancer slice cultures, and demonstrate the use of this platform to evaluate drug responses in slice cultures from human glioma xenografts and patient tumor biopsies. This approach retains much of the tissue microenvironment and can provide results rapidly enough, within days of surgery, to guide the choice of effective initial therapies. Our results establish a useful preclinical platform for cancer drug testing and development with the potential to improve cancer personalized medicine.
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