> Johns Hopkins has recently started a clinical trial where they are
> taking tumor material recovered during surgery, and injecting it on the
> backs of mice to keep the cells dividing and growing. After the tumor
> material grows to the point where they have enough (which takes a few
> months), the researchers will begin testing of the live tumor with 10
> different chemo agents to determine the ones that work the best to keep
> the tumor from progressing. So it sounds like a lot of progress is
> being made in the individualized therapy front.
I received the above from a friend but my searches so far have not turned up a link to this trial including the JH site.
PanCan is:
http://www.pancan.org/
-Peter