Pan-Cancer Analysis Shows Benefit of Taking Wide View of Cancer

Apr 03, 2017

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WASHINGTON (GenomeWeb) – At the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting on Monday, researchers gathered to hear presentations on the power of pan-cancer genomics studies.

Though much of cancer research can be said to take a narrow view of each disease or tumor type by itself — or even focusing on one individual patient at a time — the pan-cancer analyses showed the benefits of zooming out and taking a wide view of cancer as a whole.

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