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New method in testing drug effectiveness shows promise in treating rare cancers

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UCLA researchers developed a new method of testing the efficiency of different cancer treatments by growing tumors derived from patients’ cancer cells in labs. A team of undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral faculty in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center published a paper showing the technique was effective in determining the right treatments for patients with rare forms of cancer in Communications Biology, a Nature Research journal, Feb.

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New method in testing drug effectiveness shows promise in treating rare cancers

By Amira Patrawala, Manya Kidambi

March 4, 2019 11:48 p.m.