{Reference Type}: Journal Article {Title}: Updating cancer research with patient-focused networks. {Author}: Valiente M;Ortega-Paino E; {Journal}: Trends Cancer {Volume}: 10 {Issue}: 1 {Year}: 2024 01 {Factor}: 19.161 {DOI}: 10.1016/j.trecan.2023.09.002 {Abstract}: Multidisciplinary patient-centered networks offer access to difficult-to-get samples and initiate projects from human material. Improving such networks to include 'living' samples could be transformative, not only for research but for clinical trial design, especially when focused on unmet clinical needs, such as brain metastasis.