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Riot 12-16-2009 09:00 PM

Lung cancer, melanoma DNA sequenced
 
Wow - how great is this? Read it, especially if one is a smoker.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL...pe=swissMktRpt

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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have indentified all the changes in cells of two deadly cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps and say the findings mark a "transforming moment" in their understanding of the disease.

The studies by international scientists and Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are the first comprehensive descriptions of tumour cell mutations and lay bare all the genetic changes behind melanoma skin cancer and lung cancer.

zippyneedsawin 12-17-2009 05:09 AM

I'm mapped another way to prevent lung cancer. Don't smoke. ;)

Danzig 12-17-2009 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by zippyneedsawin
I'm mapped another way to prevent lung cancer. Don't smoke. ;)


it's not that simple. people have caught lung cancer that never smoked and didn't live with someone who did. my grandmother smoked for 60 years, she never got it. she lived to be 92. all smokers don't get it, and all non-smokers aren't immune.

docicu3 12-17-2009 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
it's not that simple. people have caught lung cancer that never smoked and didn't live with someone who did. my grandmother smoked for 60 years, she never got it. she lived to be 92. all smokers don't get it, and all non-smokers aren't immune.

15% actually Deb which is a pretty hefty number actually........

We used to think it was explainable by Radon emission, which is why most mid atlantic homes have radon inspections before they are sold.

If a 1/6 of all lung cancers have nothing to do with smoking, and are NOT explainable by Radon then we still have quite a bit of work to do. It's a great thing that they have the gene map so they can start to play around with sequencing and see what they find but we are talking huge numbers here.

Danzig 12-17-2009 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by docicu3
15% actually Deb which is a pretty hefty number actually........

We used to think it was explainable by Radon emission, which is why most mid atlantic homes have radon inspections before they are sold.

If a 1/6 of all lung cancers have nothing to do with smoking, and are NOT explainable by Radon then we still have quite a bit of work to do. It's a great thing that they have the gene map so they can start to play around with sequencing and see what they find but we are talking huge numbers here.


i quit smoking years ago. thankful i did so. and yeah, there is still work to do.

zippyneedsawin 12-18-2009 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
it's not that simple. people have caught lung cancer that never smoked and didn't live with someone who did. my grandmother smoked for 60 years, she never got it. she lived to be 92. all smokers don't get it, and all non-smokers aren't immune.


yes, yes. The point is one greatly reduces the risk by never lighting up.

Riot 12-18-2009 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyneedsawin
yes, yes. The point is one greatly reduces the risk by never lighting up.

Exactly. The mutations per cigarette ..... :eek:

geeker2 12-18-2009 10:16 PM

Thank god it does apply to Cigars!


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