Question: What does your research involve? What processes do you follow?
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so even if you can successfully stop a cancers growth in the lab, it might not work on an actual patient?
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Yes, that’s why we need clinical trials, which test new drugs and therapies in small groups of people to see if they are safe and if they work.
And you’re right – some drugs that work well in the lab sometimes might not work well on people – but researchers make sure they do as many experiments as possible to test them out before starting clinical trials.
tradie
My research involves trying to find treatments for breast and other cancers.So one method we use is to use cells that have been derived from cancers.Then we test the treatment/drug on the cancer cells and see if it stops the cells from growing,or halts their growth at least. Then we try to find out what process was involved in stopping the cells from growing.By that I mean,how did the drug slow the growth of the cell? Did it affect how the cells divide? Did it affect how the cells take up food? Then once we work those things out,we can think about whether it would work in humans.
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