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Cancer Commentary - Caring About Cancer

September 15th, 2006

Johns Hopkins Scientists, Cracked Breast and Colon Cancers’ Genetic Code

Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have completed the first draft of the genetic code for breast and colon cancers, identifying close to 200 mutated genes, most of which were not previously recognized as associated with tumor initiation, growth, spread or control.
According to Victor Velculescu, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of oncology at the […]

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