120 new cancer genes were identified

An international team of researchers said they have identified approximately 120 new genes related to changes that promote cancer development.

The new finding shows that the number of genes involved in cancer is much higher than people think (photo: TTO).

The team consists of more than 60 scientists led by scientist Michael Stratton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England. With this result, they added a large number of cancer genes to the 350 currently identified cancer-related genes.

'This suggests that there are more genes that contribute to cancer promotion than we thought,' said Dr. Andy Futreal, co-head of the Cancer Research Institute's Project on Cancer Genetics.

According to scientists, all cancers are the result of the accumulation of changes in one or more of the 30,000 genes in the human genome. These changes make an uncontrolled cell rise to form a tumor and the tumor can then spread to other parts of the body.

"Discovering more genes related to cancer, we hope to find more new drugs to fight this disease," Stratton said, citing a recent quote (8-3).

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