This blog is the final post of our four-part "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. The dream Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his team hope to realize is prevention. He doesn’t expect to prevent cancers from occurring, but by using cancer genome sequencing, he believes there is an opportunity to prevent cancer deaths. He envisions safe, simple, and […]
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Gene Friday Series: The Encyclopedia Analogy
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | precision medicineThis blog is part 3 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. To help people understand the complexity of cancer and the series of genetic events that lead to its formation, Dr. Bert Vogelstein built upon the encyclopedia analogy. “Each of us has an encyclopedia in our cells, and each page of that […]
Jul 19, 2013 No comments
Gene Friday Series – No Two Cancers are the Same
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | precision medicineThis blog is part 2 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. Pancreas cancer was one of the first cancer genomes Dr. Bert Vogelstein and team deciphered. For this study, the scientists examined 24 pancreas cancers and determined the sequence of all of the genes in these cancers. On average, they found just 50 […]
Jul 12, 2013 No comments
“Gene” Friday Series: Understanding Cancer Genetics
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | precision medicineThis blog is part 1 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. There is no one better suited to explain the intricacies of cancer genetics than Dr. Bert Vogelstein. He and his team completed the lion’s share of the work that proved that cancer is a genetic disease caused by an accumulation […]
Jul 5, 2013 2 comments