To deepen understanding and hasten the development of treatments, cancer needs to be modelled more accurately in vitro; applying tissue-engineering concepts and approaches in this field could bridge the gap between two-dimensional studies and in vivo animal models.
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D. W. H. thanks his Post Docs and PhD students S. Rizzi, S. Sieh, V. Reichert, P. Hesami and S. Siamadezh, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia for supporting his research.
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Hutmacher, D. Biomaterials offer cancer research the third dimension. Nature Mater 9, 90–93 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2619
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