Forsaking cures for cancer: why are we discarding the tumour biospecimens of most patients?

Title: Forsaking cures for cancer: why are we discarding the tumour biospecimens of most patients?
Creator: Gedye, Craig; Fleming, Jennifer
Relation: Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 204, Issue 8, p. 297-298
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja15.00961
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: Cancers are highly variable — between different types of cancer, between different patients’ cancers and even between different cancer cells within an individual patient’s cancer. A critical challenge facing cancer research and therapy is to understand and overcome the heterogeneity of each patient’s cancer. Resected tumours and other samples donated by patients with cancer provide invaluable bioresources for the study of cancer heterogeneity. While animal models and in vitro studies generate therapeutic hypotheses, only confirmation in human cancers can ratify targets as relevant to pursue into the clinic.
Subject: cancer; treatment; tumour biospecimens
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323635
Identifier: uon:24857
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X
Language: eng
Reviewed

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format