New cancer genetics study
The results of a major new study into the causes of cancer were published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. A team of researchers based at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, studied 44,788 sets of twins living in Sweden, Denmark and Finland to assess their lifetime risk of...
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Of cancer, genes and reporting
by Dr Jess Buxton
Q:When is a genetic disease usually not an inherited disease? A:When the disease is cancer: uncontrolled cell growth caused by genetic damage acquired throughout a lifetime. Cancer, though rarely inherited, is most definitely genetic. Identifying the many genes involved (and the proteins they make) will almost certainly be...