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Canadians Make Breakthrough in How Cancer Spreads

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Canadians Make Breakthrough in How Cancer Spreads
In a world first, Canadian scientists have decoded all three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic breast cancer tumor and identified the mutations that caused the original tumour to spread.

In a world first, Canadian scientists have decoded all three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic breast cancer tumor and identified the mutations that caused the original tumour to spread.

The landmark study by researchers at the B.C. Cancer Agency is a major step toward unravelling the mysteries of how cancer begins and what makes it move to other parts of the body.

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