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For the first time, researchers successfully used functional precision medicine — drug screening of hundreds of FDA approved drugs on patient tumor samples — to find treatments for children with relapsed cancers. This unique approach led to 83% of patients showing improvement.


Researchers developed a way to guide effective, timely treatments for children with cancer — 83% of clinical trial patients showed improvement.

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