chemo-scale directly tests the effect of chemotherapy / anti-cancer drugs on the patient’s tumour cells. It helps to customise the treatment plan according to sensitivity and resistance patterns of tumour cells. With this information, the physician and the patient can choose the most effective chemotherapy from the available options. chemo-scale is performed on cells taken from a fresh biopsy sample of the tumour or circulating tumour-associated cells (C-ETACs) isolated from peripheral blood. A control analysis is included.
Analysing the chemosensitivity pattern of circulating tumour-associated cells and tumour tissue-derived cells of the same patient, we observed a concordance of 93.7%.
