Japan identifies genes that cause lung cancer

Japanese researchers have reported that they have identified several types of genes that cause a lung cancer, according to NHK.

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Researchers at Jichi Medical University and the Japan Cancer Research Foundation have focused on studying healthy genes that cause adenocarcinoma by changing sea with other genes.

Lung cancer kills more than 60,000 people in Japan every year

Later, the researchers said six genes of the same type had been discovered in cancer cells from 1,500 patients and confirmed they had caused cancer in mice.

Japanese researchers added that thyroid cancer drugs, which developed from similar sea phenomena, limited the functions of the six newly identified genes and prevented them. cancer development.

Lung cancer kills more than 60,000 people in Japan every year, accounting for the highest percentage of all cancers. It is estimated that 1% of those patients have at least 1 of the 6 genes mentioned above.

Professor Hiroyuki Mano at Jichi Medical University said that it is very likely that the treatment for thyroid cancer will also be effective for patients with adenocarcinoma with newly identified genes.

Professor Mano said he hoped the drug would be used to test patients with adenocarcinoma as soon as possible.