An Interesting Read – Researchers develop new way to personalize treatments for bladder cancer

[EddieM]

Researchers at UC Davis, in collaboration with colleagues at Jackson Laboratory, have developed a new way to personalize treatments for aggressive bladder cancer. In early proof-of-concept research, the team took bladder tumors from individual patients, identified actionable mutations and grafted the tumors into mice. From there, the researchers simultaneously tested multiple therapies in the tumor models. Treatments that were effective in the models could then be given to patients. The research was published today in the journal PLoS One.

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http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150815/Researchers-develop-new-way-to-personalize-treatments-for-bladder-cancer.aspx

[marysue]

This is a real interesting read. I think that they are already working on something like this for breast cancer. It may explain why some people respond better to treatments like BCG than others. I hope and pray for the day they come up with treatment protocols that really work and can save people’s bladders so that they don’t have to have them removed and even better yet avoid a chemo regime that often has to go with it.

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