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The Complicated Causes of Cancer

Posted on September 08, 2008

Since I was just banging on the table (or the lab bench) the other day about how many diseases aren t single-factor, and about how many diseases (like cancer) aren t even single diseases, I thought this would be a good time to haul out some evidence for that. The data are here thanks to some recent papers by groups who are sequencing various tumor lines, looking for common mutations as new drug targets. (The Cancer Genome Atlas, an NIH project, is behind a lot of work in this area).But what s become clear, if it wasn t already, is that various cancer lines have a startlingly wide array...

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