'if I Had Colon Cancer, I Could Grow My Own Tumor, and See Which Drug Kills It'
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The article is about organoids [0]. What the quote means is that if a patient had colon cancer, they could extract some tissue from it, grow it -in a dish, in a lab- into an organoid, and then try various options on it to see exactly what works on this specific patient.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid