TEL AVIV—Researchers have used brain cancer patients’ own cells in a form of 3D printing material to make a model of their tumor to test the efficacy of potential treatments before using them for real inside the body.
The scientists extract “a chunk” of the tumor from the brain of a patient with glioblastoma—an aggressive cancer with a very poor prognosis—and use it to print a model matching their MRI scans, said Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, who led the research at Tel Aviv University.
