Asked by kelvin calin

Scientists use tissue cultures to study possible medicines that can be used to treat cancer patients. What is one benefit of this procedure?
Patients do not receive harmful or ineffective medication.
The cultured cells are not in their normal environment.
Doctors know how to treat all types of cancer.
One tissue culture can be used for all cancer patients.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Patients do not receive harmful or ineffective medication.

Explanation: Tissue cultures let researchers test candidate drugs on cells in the lab first to assess effectiveness and toxicity, reducing the chance that patients are exposed to harmful or useless treatments.