A generation ago, childhood cancer was considered a death sentence. Now, through research, approximately 75 percent of children with cancer in the U.S. are being cured. Still, we need to provide more effective and less toxic treatments.
This means testing. Some research can be done by computer modeling and in test tubes. However, any experimental treatment being considered for clinical testing must first demonstrate conclusive anticancer effects without causing “side effects” that outweigh the anti-tumor benefits, which still can only be done by involving laboratory animals that have cancer, most often mice.
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