Clinical outcome of an anticancer agent screening test with primary culture cells

• Published in: Gan to kagaku ryoho Vol. 26; no. 10; p. 1449
• Main Authors: Hirono, M, Yoshihara, T, Hayashi, Y, Oosaki, T, Hirai, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan 01.09.1999
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use; Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor - methods; Endometrial Neoplasms - drug therapy; Endometrial Neoplasms - pathology; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Ovarian Neoplasms - drug therapy; Ovarian Neoplasms - pathology; Survival Analysis; Treatment Outcome; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Uterine Neoplasms - drug therapy; Uterine Neoplasms - pathology

Cancer cells are tested for sensitivity to anticancer agents before the drugs are used for treatment in clinical settings, but the results of these tests have not always been reported fully. Since 1973, one of the authors (Hirono) has been performing sensitivity tests of anticancer drugs by using pr...