# OnCo record idea-bio1-ctc-derived-explants (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio1-ctc-derived-explants/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-bio1-ctc-derived-explants" ;
  schema:name "Grow models from tumour cells in the blood when a biopsy is impossible"@en ;
  schema:description "Some patients cannot have their tumour biopsied safely. Cancer cells captured from a blood sample can sometimes be grown into a model instead."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio1-ctc-derived-explants/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxx069> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/organoids/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pdx-models/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-preclinical-models/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-resistance/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-wong-biostatistics/> .