Cancer genome analysis of breast cancer: Team identifies genetic causes and similarity to ovarian cancer

Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists with The Cancer Genome Atlas program reports their genetic characterization of 800 breast tumors, including finding some of the genetic causes of the most common forms of breast cancer, providing clues for new therapeutic targets, and identifying a molecular similarity between one sub-type of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

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