Largest cancer atlas to date brings new treatments for incurable tumors closer

Largest cancer atlas to date brings new treatments for incurable tumors closer

One in two people will develop cancer in their lifetime. In neither case will doctors be able to determine why, perhaps 15 years or more ago, a healthy cell transformed into a pre-cancer; or when that same cell became malignant and ended up triggering the tumor. This almost science-fiction level of detail can be made possible thanks to new three-dimensional cancer atlases, which describe, cell-by-cell, the interior of tumors, the tissue that surrounds them, and the immune system that tries to eliminate them. It is a new dimension in understanding how this complex disease works, and looking for new ways to cure it.

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