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In Vitro 3D Cultures to Model the Tumor Microenvironment

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For a comprehensive overview of 3D systems commonly used for studying tumor-stroma interactions, with a focus on recent advances in cancer modeling and drug discovery and testing, see as mentioned in this paper.
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It is now well established that the tumor microenvironment plays a key role in determining cancer growth, metastasis and drug resistance. Thus, it is fundamental to understand how cancer cells interact and communicate with their stroma and how this crosstalk regulates disease initiation and progression. In this setting, 3D cell cultures have gained a lot of interest in the last two decades, due to their ability to better recapitulate the complexity of tumor microenvironment and therefore to bridge the gap between 2D monolayers and animal models. Herein, we present an overview of the 3D systems commonly used for studying tumor-stroma interactions, with a focus on recent advances in cancer modeling and drug discovery and testing.

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