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Cancer patients testing drugs on mouse ‘avatars’

12/15/2014 majac Your Health Matters

In this Sept. 19, 2014, photo, Charles Cook, manager of facilities and operations at Champions Oncology, displays mouse carrying a cancer patient's tumor graft under its skin in a lab in Baltimore. Cancer patients are paying the private lab to breed mice that carry bits of their own tumors so treatments can be tried first on the customized rodents. The idea is to see which drugs might work best on a specific person's specific cancer. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Scientists often test drugs in mice. Now some cancer patients are doing the same — with the hope of curing their own disease.

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