On May 1 Nature and the The New England Journal of Medicine published studies on the cancer of the uterine lining and leukemia. This is part of a larger effort by the Natural Institutes of Health to look a mutations in the DNA of common cancers. Jeff Boyd, executive director of the Cancer Genome Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, explained that it make more to classify cancer by there gene mutation then where they originate. About 10 percent of tumors that had seemed easily treated with the old type of exam now appear to be more deadly according to the genetic analysis and would require chemotherapy. Also this is helping doctors link some cancers together. the most dangerous cancer of the uterine lining closely resembles the worst ovarian and breast cancers.
This linkage of different cancers can be very influential to finding a cure for more and more cancers. This may some day lead to understanding and treating all forms of cancer.
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