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Institute of Cancer Research
POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA (NewsPoint Africa) - While there is no doubt that breast cancer is becoming contentious issues in the world, there are reports that indicate that a genetic code of the most common type of hereditary breast cancer has been mapped. It is for the first time that such development has taken place in the medical community.
It has been made possible by efforts from a team from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) that they have managed to "fully sequenced" the DNA of two breast cancers which were triggered by a faulty BRCA1 gene.
"It is exciting to find new genes which could be involved in causing and driving breast cancer. Now these have been identified we have to do more work to find out the role that they play”, said Dr. Rachael Natrajan, one of the scientists involved in the study. The study was done by collaborative efforts from the Institut Curie in France, the University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands, The Cancer Research UK London Research Institute in London and the University of Nottingham.
With the study making reverberations in the contours of the society, there are fair chances that new and better treatments could be developed in the time to come. While breast cancer affects 4,500 people in the UK each year, it has been found that nearly 10% of the cases are caused by genes.
Such selective cases are quite aggressive and fail to serve any benefit from targeted drugs such as tamoxifen and herceptin. It has long been a challenge for the medical fraternity to deal with the rising concern, but this study, published in the Journal of Pathology, has certainly raised many hopes.
It is being believed that there are fair chances that now hereditary breast cancer patients would be dealt effectively unlike the previous times when there was not much known about the same.
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