Lung cancer, melanoma DNA sequenced

[Riot]

Wow - how great is this? Read it, especially if one is a smoker.

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

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]

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

[Danzig]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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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 .....

[geeker2]

Thank god it does apply to Cigars!