Mapping cancer origins

Cell. 2011 Apr 1;145(1):25-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.03.019.

Abstract

Cancer comprises a bewildering assortment of diseases that kill 7.5 million people each year. Poor understanding of cancer's diversity currently thwarts our goal of a cure for every patient, but recent integration of genomic and stem cell technologies promises a route through this impasse.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Humans
  • Leukemia / drug therapy
  • Leukemia / genetics
  • Leukemia / pathology
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Neoplasms / pathology