The uniqueness of tumor/cancer cells

coloCan
coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
edited April 2018 in Colorectal Cancer #1

 

https://medicalxpress.com/print442662905.html 

 

 

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  • Canadian Sandy
    Canadian Sandy Member Posts: 784 Member
    #2
    Interesting.

    Interesting.

  • darcher
    darcher Member Posts: 304 Member
    #3
    Informative

      Seems to me that if a test could be developed to catch early mutations that it could be used to catch cancer before it even starts.  It's not a surprise that the mutations vary from cell to cell and cancer to cancer.  I wouldn't be at all surprised that it's not directly attributable to what caused it hence the wide ranges of mutation types.  A study that isolates a group of people who were exposed to a certain carcinogen to see if the same mutations were occurring would help to prove the connection to a specific environmental cause. 

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