October 7,
2009, Vancouver, B.C Canada – For the first time in
history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded
all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular
breast cancer tumour, a type of breast cancer which accounts for about 10 per
cent of all breast cancers, and have found all of the mutations, or “spelling”
mistakes that caused the cancer to spread.
The landmark
study, which will be published October 8th as the cover...
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