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Describe the benefits to using tissue cultures to study medications used for treating cancer cells

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Medications can be tested on cell cultures instead of being injected into patients unnecessarily.

Cancer cells continue to grow in the cultures uncontrollably allowing scientists to test multiple medications on the cancer cells.

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