We designed a new way to build miniature fluidic devices to enable personalized cancer treatment

by Sara Hassanpour Tamrin, Arindom Sen, The Conversation

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Add as preferred source Miniature (microfluidic) devices created using our simplified fabrication method. Credit: Joe McFarland/University of Calgary There is no "one-size-fits-all" treatment for patients living with cancer . Cancer occurs when normal cells in the body genetically mutate and transform into abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably.

In most cases, these cancer cells form a solid mass of tissue called a tumor. The genetic changes that cause a tumor can influence its composition, so two people may have the same type of cancer but different types of tumors . A treatment may then work for one patient but not another .