Lung cancer, melanoma DNA sequenced

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Wow - how great is this? Read it, especially if one is a smoker.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL...pe=swissMktRpt

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have indentified all the changes in cells of two deadly cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps and say the findings mark a "transforming moment" in their understanding of the disease.

The studies by international scientists and Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are the first comprehensive descriptions of tumour cell mutations and lay bare all the genetic changes behind melanoma skin cancer and lung cancer.