摘要 |
The invention relates to a method for predicting the response of a tumour disease in a patient, caused by a solid epithelial tumour, to a therapeutic measure, wherein epithelial tumour cells from a bodily fluid of the patient are taken up in a cell culture medium in each case, wherein the tumour cells from a sample of the cell culture medium containing the tumour cells are exposed to the therapeutic measure, while the tumour cells from a control sample of the cell culture medium containing the tumour cells remain untreated, wherein the proportion of dying-off and dead epithelial tumour cells in the total number of epithelial tumour cells is then determined for the sample and the control sample, respectively, and is used to determine a dying-off rate of the epithelial tumour cells, which is caused by the therapeutic measure, as a measure of the response.
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