26 genes endorse lung cancer, researchers said
NEW YORK – Scientists have isolated 26 genes that increase the risk of lung cancer, when mutated. The study was the ever largest to screen genes fo...
NEW YORK – Scientists have isolated 26 genes that increase the risk of lung cancer, when mutated.
The study was the ever largest to screen genes for mutations for the most widespread form of lung cancer, called “adenocarcinoma”. The results were shocking, almost more than double the list of genes implicated in type of lung cancer. It’s a next step towards the development of new treatments that can be adapted to adenocarcinomic patients.
The conclusion, from scientists at a dozen institutions in the U.S. and Germany, appear in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. Lung cancer is the leading cancer, killing most of the people, in the U.S. and worldwide.
The researchers concentrated on tumors that formed in the lung and were surgically removed. But researchers also hope to study whether the same mutations appear in lung tumors that spread elsewhere.
