Decoding the gene sequence of pancreatic cancer

According to the October 25 report of the Garvan Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australian scientists have decoded the gene of pancreatic cancer, potentially opening up new ways to treat the disease.

Pancreatic cancer has the highest death rate of all dangerous cancers and is one of the few cancers that survivors cannot improve their health over the last 40 years. .

Professor Sean Grimmond of the University of Queensland and Professor Andrew Biankin of the Garvan Medical Research Institute, led an international group of more than 100 researchers, who sequenced the genes of 100 pancreatic tumors and compared them. with normal tissue to identify gene mutations that cause this cancer.

Professor Grimmond stated: "We have found a total of more than 2,000 mutant genes in about 90% of the samples, and hundreds of gene mutations only appear in 1-2% of tumors. This shows what "pancreatic cancer" is not a disease but many diseases, and shows that people who seem to have the same cancer may need to be treated differently. "

The study was published in Nature.