Cancer diversity has 'huge implications'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24957089


A single tumour can be made up of many separate cancers needing different treatments, say researchers.

A team at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, have developed a new technique for measuring the diversity within a cancer.

They showed "extraordinary" differences between cancerous cells and say new targeted drugs may fail as they may be unable to kill all the mutated tissue.

Experts said the findings would have "profound implications" for treatments.

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1. Recurrences aren't necessarily the original cancer either.

Neither fact is a revelation to the cancer field, but this article might be the first major public article.