Pan-cancer studies find common patterns shared by different tumor types

Friday, September 27, 2013 - 11:32 in Biology & Nature

Molecular analysis now shows that cancers of different organs have many shared features, while cancers from the same organ or tissue are often quite distinct. The Pan-Cancer Initiative, a major effort to analyze the molecular aberrations in cancer cells across a range of tumor types, has yielded an abundance of new findings.

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