A new study could revolutionise the treatment of breast tumours,
according to scientists Results from the biggest breast cancer
tumour study ever conducted could revolutionise the way the
disease is diagnosed and treated, it has been claimed.
Scientists reclassified breast cancers into 10 completely new
categories based on their genetic "fingerprints". Several
entirely new breast cancer genes that drive the disease were
also uncovered. The wealth of new data is expected to lead to
better ways of predicting patient survival, as well as novel
treatments tailored to people's genetic make-up. The research,
published in the journal Nature, is the largest ever global
study of breast cancer tissue. It marks the culmination of
decades of work by British and Canadian scientists led by a
Cancer Research UK team based in Cambridge. Genetic material
from 2,000 tumour samples taken from women diagnosed with breast
cancer between five and 10 years ago was analysed in the study.
The scientists sorted the samples into 10 sub