Cancer Research: Gene Code Cracked For Breast Cancer
October 10th 2009 -
Turning point in the cancer of the breast research: For the first time Canadian researchers succeeded in decoding the gene code of this kind of cancer.
How the cancer of the breast research centre communicated British Colombia to the Canadian province in Vancouver, open this discovery a considerable number at possibilities and could help of treating the illness medically more purposefully. Cancer of the breast is the most frequent cancer form with women. The discovery equals the find one “secret book concerning cancer of the breast”, explained the researchers around director of studies Samuel Aparicio.
For their study the scientists observed the development of the breast carcinoma of a woman over nine years. It decoded possible combination of DNA on the genome in three different development stages thereby billions and found at the end 32 mutations in the Metastases. Since only five of them were present in the original tumor, the researchers could identify these as “causes of the illness”. The investigation published the trade paper “Nature” as cover story.
So far nothing has pointed out that the five mutations for cancer could play a role, explained the researchers the surprise of the result. It gives new information about to the science how cancer of the breast develops and spreads. The mutations showed also that the cells in a tumor were not alike and each kind of cell can react differently to a treatment.
The break-through became possible only by new and more favorable technology of the decoding of gene information. For the successful listing of the human genome in the year 2001 still years work and immense funds were necessary, explained Co-author of the study Marco Marra. “We were able, which cancer of the breast said in weeks to decode and with a fraction of the costs”, the scientist and it prophesied that this will be in not too long time only a question of days. Then physicians for individual cancer patients could develop custom-made treatments.
Tags: breast carcinoma, Gene Code, metastases
