{"id":187165,"date":"2024-04-11T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/testing-drugs-on-mini-cancers-in-the-lab-may-reveal-best-treatment"},"modified":"2024-04-11T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:23:14","slug":"testing-drugs-on-mini-cancers-in-the-lab-may-reveal-best-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/testing-drugs-on-mini-cancers-in-the-lab-may-reveal-best-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal best treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testing-drugs-on-mini-cancers-in-the-lab-may-reveal-best-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next innovation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/cancer\/\">cancer<\/a> treatment could be to test all possible drugs on thousands of miniature versions of a person\u2019s tumour, grown in the lab, to see which works the best. The technique, sometimes called drug sensitivity testing, may have already helped a few children with advanced cancer live for longer than the standard approach.<\/p>\n<p>It could eventually become routinely used for everyone with cancer, says <a href=\"https:\/\/stempel.fiu.edu\/faculty-staff\/profiles\/azzam-diana.html\">Diana Azzam<\/a> at Florida International University in Miami. \u201cI would say it will help guide treatments in any [cancer], whether it\u2019s aggressive or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next innovation in cancer treatment could be to test all possible drugs on thousands of miniature versions of a person\u2019s tumour, grown in the lab, to see which works the best. The technique, sometimes called drug sensitivity testing, may have already helped a few children with advanced cancer live for longer than the standard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}