Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Tissue engineering and Cancer

Cancer is the most dreaded disorder. The exact cause and mechanism is yet not known. Diverse research is going on find an answer. Tissue engineering has been inter-related with cancer to find some ways. Using tissue engineering to comprehend cancer can be done by fabricating 3D constructs that will mimic tumor cells and help us know how cancer cell grow, spread and metastasize at the biological level. For testing drugs, 3D structures are more reliable. One approach has been to engineer tumors and understand mechanism of drugs administered on then in vitro. Tissue engineered cancer models can be used as test therapies.

Related Societies: Swiss Society for Biomaterials + Regenerative medicine, Switzerland , Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society, Turkey, Romanian Society for Biomaterials, Romania , The Hellenic Society for Biomaterials, Greece, Japanese Society for Biomaterials, Japan