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Ann Arbor [Michigan], April 3: Options for treatment are limited when cancer spreads to the brain. The majority of medications made to fight metastases either cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier or are ineffective against brain metastases.

New study offers clues to how cancer spreads to the brain, using microfluidic devices to track what happens as migrating cancer cells as they take root in the brain.

Options for treatment are limited when cancer spreads to the brain

Microfluidic devices track what happens to cancer cells as they migrate in the brain.

New study aims to improve anti-cancer drug response predictions across cancer types The goal of "precision oncology" is to be able to tailor treatments to each individual patient based on their cancers unique molecular fingerprints. New technologies and large, "-omics" datasets are now allowing researchers to examine shared features not just within a single type of cancer -; such as breast cancer -; but to look for patterns across many types of cancer. These data offer great clues that an appro...