Cold cases gone hot: Montreal researchers solve decades-old medical mysteries using genetics

Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

The mystery began in 1976. Adolfo Pampena was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that caused a strange combination of symptoms and was associated with the occurrence of multiple tumours in his stomach and colon. His medical team was stumped and was unable to answer the most important questions for him and his family: the cause of his disease and the risk for future generations...

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