Cancer test that can reveal best medicine for each patient could be a breakthrough

Cancer patients have been given new hope with a test that analyses tumours to predict the most effective drugs for individual patients. The breakthrough produces a result in as little as 24 hours and is more accurate than current genetic approaches to personalising treatment. Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Research in London say the technique, using artificial intelligence to analyse large amounts of data from tumour samples, allows doctors to quickly establish which drug combinations are most likely to work. Researchers tested tumour cells from lung cancer patients, examining how seven drugs affected 52 proteins linked to the disease's growth and spread. Of 252 combinations of drugs tested, 128 showed some level of synergy, meaning their combined effect exceeded that of each individual drug added together.