In Long-Awaited Maps of Cancer, the Breakthrough Is the Problem

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (online.wsj.com)

After struggling for years to improve the treatment of cancer, scientists now hope to fight the disease with the help of the same techniques that deciphered the human genome eight years ago: mapping it. The idea was to sort out which gene mutations cause which types of cancer so that cancer treatments could be tailored to each patient. However, what the researchers found was quite different...

Keywords: Cancer gene mapping human genome