Modern medicine still takes a decidedly ham-fisted approach to treating cancer — it attacks with radiation and chemotherapy drugs that are just as toxic to healthy tissues as they are to tumors. What’s more the effects of these treatments vary between patients. However, a novel (albeit gag-inducing) new research method from the University of Toronto hold the key to personalizing oncology: 2D tumors grown from the patient’s own genetic material.
Via: Motherboard
Source: University of Toronto