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ea0026p60 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ECE2011

Development and characterisation of patient-individual tumor models for endocrine tumors

Hantel C , Scheller F , Ozimek A , Chiapponi C , Mussack T , Beuschlein F

Only a few cell lines are available for endocrine tumors which furthermore do not reflect heterogenous functional properties and specific therapeutic response rates of individual tumors. To facilitate patient individual treatments and thereby to optimize therapeutic efficacy, we are aiming at the development and characterisation of patient-individual tumor models. Pieces of surgical tumor specimen from four adrenocortical carcinomas, one aldosterone producing adenoma, one pheo...