'Tumor avatars' predict patients' response to immunotherapy

(Netherlands Cancer Institute) Tumor fragments in the lab are able to predict whether the corresponding real-life patients will benefit from immunotherapy. " We've solved a major problem many scientists had been facing: preserving a tumors original composition and structure outside of the patient in the lab " , says cancer researcher Daniela Thommen from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. On 8 July, the results of her study are published in Nature Medicine.
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