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Article: Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Commends the Selection of Brain Cancer for Inclusion in The Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Project
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- U.S. Newswire
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- September 13, 2006
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Accelerate Brain Cancer
Cure today commended the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for their announced
selection of brain cancer, or glioblastoma (GBM), as one of three
cancers being included in their first-ever pilot project for The
Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).
The goal of TGCA is to map genetic changes associated with all
types of cancer in the human genetic blueprint. The cancers that will
be studied in the TCGA Pilot Project are GBM, lung and ovarian. These
cancers were selected because of the availability of biospecimen
collections that met TCGA's rigorous scientific, technical and
ethical ...