Organoids predict treatment response for pancreatic cancer
Channel: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 2018-06-01

Patient-derived organoids, three-dimensional balls of cells cultured from tumors, can quickly and accurately predict how patients with pancreatic cancer respond to a variety of treatments, facilitating a precision-medicine approach to the deadly disease.

That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers led by David Tuveson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and Director of Research for The Lustgarten Foundation. 

Learn more: https://www.cshl.edu/organoid-profiling-personalizes-treatments-for-pancreatic-cancer/