New cancer treatment approaches based on genetic code analysis.

The conclusions of two recent studies published on May 2nd in the New England Journal of Medicine and Nature could open up a new avenue of treatment for patients suffering from this devastating disease.

According to the results of these two studies, some dangerous cancers have the same genetic structure regardless of where the malignant tumor is located in the body.

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After analyzing the genetic code of over 10,000 tumors in patients with 20 different types of cancer, scientists found a structural similarity in genes between several forms of breast cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer. For example, ovarian cancer and breast cancer both share a common genetic mutation.

In particular, researchers have identified a certain genetic mutation that occurs more frequently in uterine tumors than in other forms of cancer.

Thanks to this research, the drug used to treat this variant could be used to treat uterine cancer, a disease that diagnoses over 50,000 people and kills 8,000 women in the US each year.

Scientists are also conducting research on acute leukemia, a disease diagnosed in over 14,000 people and the cause of death in 10,000 people in the US each year, in order to identify typical gene variants.

A study of over 200 patients found 260 gene variants associated with leukemia. However, scientists have yet to identify the variants that appear in acute cases.

These studies, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's "Cancer Genome Map Plan," have supported the trend of classifying tumors based on genetic structure rather than their location in the body.

The new research findings are expected to open up new and more effective avenues for diagnosing and treating cancer.

According to (VNA) - VT