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Tumour mechanopathology: Cutting the stress out

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Solid stress within tumours can be quantified by measuring their deformation after cutting, slicing or taking a needle biopsy of them.

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Figure 1: Three methods for measuring solid stress in ex vivo tumours.

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  1. Daniele M. Gilkes and Denis Wirtz are in the Department of Oncology, and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, and Institute for Nanobiotechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.,

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Gilkes, D., Wirtz, D. Tumour mechanopathology: Cutting the stress out. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0012 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-016-0012

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