Mutations Needed for Cancer To Emerge

Hannah Nichols is giving us more information on the mutations needed for cancer to emerge that the scientists have uncovered. The article has been fact checked by Jasmin Collier.

There are somewhere between one and 10 driver mutations required for cancer to develop. This information is according to a team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. More than 7,500 tumors across 29 cancers were studied by the researchers.

Their findings have been published in the journal Cell that reveals the number of mutations required to drive cancer significantly, depending upon the type of cancer. Dr. Peter Campbell was …read more