Treating cancer is a bit like shooting in the dark. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. There’s no way to predict. That’s because while scientists have some crude ideas about how to disable cancer cells, the inner workings of cancer are a mystery for the most part. Perhaps not for long. Researchers have just sequenced the entire DNA code of one type of breast-cancer tumor. The team, led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine, began the project using tumor samples from 50 women enrolled in another of their studies. All the women had breast tumors that contained estrogen receptors,…
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