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Design and Fabrication of Micro-Fluidic Chip for Formation, Culture and Analysis of Cancer Tumor Cell Spheroids
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Saeedi, Mohammad Saeed (Supervisor) ; Kazemzadeh Hannani, Siamak (Co-Supervisor)
Abstract
Simulating the in-vivo environment of cancer tumors outside the body, can provide an appropriate condition for studying different key processes of the tumor micro-environment, such as aggregation, formation, growth, angiogenesis and metastasis of the cancer tumor cells, which can be useful in finding methods to cure, or at least control cancer. Every year, a variety of drugs are being developed to overcome cancer, all of which need to be experimented. Although, these drugs are now experimented on animals, and some human volunteers, the reaction of different patients’ cancer cells to different drugs may differ with the experimented animals, or even with other people. So, there needs to be a...