New approaches against metastatic breast cancer: mini-tumors from circulating cancer cells
Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the "germ cells" of breast cancer metastases. They are rare and could not be propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy resistance difficult. A team from the DKFZ, the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM and the NCT Heidelberg has now succeeded for the first time in cultivating stable tumor organoids directly from blood samples of breast cancer patients.
https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/new-approaches-against-metastatic-breast-cancer-mini-tumors-circulating-cancer-cells