# OnCo record idea-bio2-ctc-culture-functional-testing (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-bio2-ctc-culture-functional-testing/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-bio2-ctc-culture-functional-testing" ;
  schema:name "Grow blood-borne tumour cells to test drugs on the cells that actually spread"@en ;
  schema:description "Drug tests normally use cells from the original tumour. Growing the rarer cells found in blood would test drugs against the cells that are actually travelling."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-ctc-culture-functional-testing/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2474> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/functional-drug-testing/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/organoids/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pdx-models/> ;
  onco:people <https://onco.cc/people/caroline-dive/>, <https://onco.cc/people/fiona-blackhall/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-metastasis-biology/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-preclinical-models/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-dillekas-cancer-med/> .