{"id":229748,"date":"2026-01-24T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/using-lab-grown-lung-tumors-as-test-subjects-for-tailored-cancer-therapies"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:07:48","slug":"using-lab-grown-lung-tumors-as-test-subjects-for-tailored-cancer-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/using-lab-grown-lung-tumors-as-test-subjects-for-tailored-cancer-therapies","title":{"rendered":"Using lab-grown lung tumors as test subjects for tailored cancer therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-lab-grown-lung-tumors-as-test-subjects-for-tailored-cancer-therapies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer varies widely from patient to patient, and that diversity makes it hard to find effective treatments. Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charit\u00e9 (BIH) have developed a method to evaluate multiple therapeutic approaches on patient-derived \u201ctumoroids\u201d\u2014miniature tumors grown from tissue removed during surgery at Charit\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>By testing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-07-importance-ecological-cellular-interactions-therapy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">drug responses<\/a> across these tumoroids, the team showed that therapeutic success depends on a complex interplay of tumor characteristics rather than a single factor. Their results suggest that tumoroid-based testing could help physicians tailor treatments to individual patients and improve clinical decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>The BIH researchers have published their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-025-01594-3\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> in Nature Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lung cancer varies widely from patient to patient, and that diversity makes it hard to find effective treatments. Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charit\u00e9 (BIH) have developed a method to evaluate multiple therapeutic approaches on patient-derived \u201ctumoroids\u201d\u2014miniature tumors grown from tissue removed during surgery at Charit\u00e9 By testing drug responses across these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229748","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=229748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}