[HN Gopher] 'If I had colon cancer, I could grow my own tumor, a...
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       'If I had colon cancer, I could grow my own tumor, and see which
       drug kills it'
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-11-22 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | orionblastar wrote:
       | I had infected Polyps in my colon. It was no joke. It hurt really
       | badly having a BM, and I had surgery to cut the Polyps off to
       | avoid Colon Cancer. Cancer is no laughing matter. I'd rather not
       | have cancer than have it and try drugs on it to see which one
       | kills it.
        
         | genezeta wrote:
         | As stupid as the headline sounds -which I concur, sounds rather
         | silly-, it does not mean that.
         | 
         | The article is about _organoids_ [0]. What the quote means is
         | that if a patient had colon cancer, they could extract some
         | tissue from it, grow it - _in a dish, in a lab_ - into an
         | organoid, and then try various options on it to see exactly
         | what works on this specific patient.
         | 
         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid
        
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