jun 29, 2009 - Cancer Research Excelled

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The complete genetic codes for skin and lung cancer were identified. Every possible mutation turning healthy cells cancerous was fully cataloged allowing new medicine to be discovered, giving people their lives back. The USA began looking at cancers of the brain, the ovary and pancreas; the UK was looking at breast cancer; Japan was studying the liver, China the stomach, and India the mouth. Welcome Trust Sanger Institute was the first organization to discover the full genomes of two general types of cancer.

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