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Liver cancer and result may lurk in patient's DNA
Posted Aug 27th 2007 2:55PM by Brian White
Filed under: Liver Cancer, Research
Liver cancer -- the fifth most common cancer type worldwide -- may have do do more with a patient's DNA rather than any specific environmental variable, according to new research.
Liver cancer was found to be affected by the
genome of a particular patient after the process of methylation (the extent can vary widely), which then could be tied to a particular liver cancer patient's outcome.
This really does not suggest anything surprising, since most cancers tend to be sunk deeply into a person's DNA, then expressed in various ways based on the witch's brew of lifestyle variables unique to every patient.
I honestly think we're just now starting to scratch the surface on the understanding of how cancer develops, even after decades of specific, billion-dollar research.
Tags: cancer genes, CancerGenes, DNA, liver cancer, LiverCancer
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