Scientists ‘decode’ cancer genes for the first time
17th January 2009
A team in America compared the DNA taken from healthy skin cells with that from cancerous cells in a 50-year-old woman who later died from acute myeloid leukaemia, a form of cancer that affects the cells in the bone marrow that make blood.
They found 10 important genetic differences in the cancerous DNA, eight of which had never been linked to this form of cancer before.