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From: Patient-derived xenograft models of breast cancer and their predictive power

Figure 2

Evaluation of response of primary tumor and its metastases using patient-derived xenograft models. Upper panel: A cohort of immunocompromised mice are divided into two arms and treated with either vehicle or drug A. A relapsed tumor can be passaged in mice to generate a resistant tumor line for genomic and gene expression analyses. Lower panel: Genomic and expression profiling of the primary tumor and metastasis (for example, the lung) may identify potential therapeutic targets for metastasis. In the case shown, drug X eradicated the primary tumor but not all metastases. CNA, copy number alterations; Tx, treatment.

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