Fig. 1
From: Involving patients in healthcare research is well documented but can it work in lab-based research?
Involving patients in lab-based translational research. A The experimental plan. Patients underogoing surgery as part of their treatment plan can choose to donate their tumours to research. There tumours are dissected into ‘mini tumours’ which are then treated with different drug combinations in the lab and assessed via microscopy. B Patient involvement. Patient committee memebrs had a meet and greet, followed by a lab tour and then finally a discussion about treatment experience. This discussion fed directly into the experimental plans. The decision to include a range of PARPi in our experiments, instead of selecting just one, came as a direct result of speaking to patients