Cancer Types Studied (IMAGE)

University of East Anglia

Cancer Types Studied

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An international team systematically investigated the DNA found within more than 2,600 tumor samples from patients with 38 different types of cancer. They discovered traces of viruses in 13% of the samples studied, and also further identified some of the mechanisms that viruses use to trigger carcinogenic mutations.

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Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes

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