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DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort

Posted by samzenpus on from the world-wide-tumor dept.

Enigma23 writes "As reported on news.com.au, scientists from the International Cancer Genome Consortium of 12 institutes around the world will today release the first DNA profiles of some of the most prevalent types of tumors. While the story asserts that 'A new era of cancer treatment has dawned,' I'm a bit more skeptical, given that gene therapy and immunotherapy are still very much in their infancy at the current time."

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  1. A slightly more informative webpage by parallel_prankster · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.qcmg.org/cancer.html It gives a background of what they are trying to do, seems interesting.

    1. Re:A slightly more informative webpage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Or go to the source ICGC.

  2. Re:I'll take whatever advancement we've got. by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) in the fall of 1980, it doesn't have stages like tumor cancers, but at the time I had a 5% chance to make it 3 years. I was clean after 3 months, it relapsed in the fall of 1982, 5% chance to make it 5 years.

    Spring of 1991 I was diagnosed early with Stage 0 (Carcinoma in Situ) Testicular Cancer on both sides, surgery and some chemo.

    Fall of 2006 I was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumor in my neck, that left a nice scar.

    I'm the only one in my NIH tracking group of ALL from back then to be alive.

    Doctors freak me out, IVs of anytime scare the hell out of me, my fear are lumps from a lymph node.