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Genetic profile of lung cancer can predict disease’s next move

UK scientists carry out most comprehensive study so far of tumour evolution and its implications for treatment
Lung cancer cells under the microscope. The most dangerous lung cancers are not usually the ones that are largest when diagnosed but smaller ones less than 1cm in diameter which contain a diverse population of mutating cells

A comprehensive analysis by British researchers of the way lung cancer evolves over time gives medical scientists a new means of predicting how individual patients’ tumours will develop and deciding how best to treat them.

Cancer Research UK released the results on Wednesday of a £14mn study called TracerX involving 800 patients over a nine-year period. Lung cancer is the world’s most deadly cancer, killing about 35,000 people a year in the UK.

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