Cancer research

Cancer research is the intense scientific effort to understand the development of cancer and identify potential therapies. As the Cancer Genome Project put it in a 2004 review article{{fn|1}}, "a central aim of cancer research has been to identify the mutated genes that are causally implicated in oncogenesis (cancer genes)".

References

• {{fnb|1}} {{Journal reference issue | Author=Futreal PA, Coin L, Marshall M, Down T, Hubbard T, Wooster R, Rahman, N, Stratton MR | Title=A census of human cancer genes | Journal=Nature Reviews Cancer | Volume=4| Issue= | Year=2004 | Pages=177-83}} PMID 14993899
• {{fnb|2}} {{Journal reference issue | Author= Takahashi T, Suzuki M, Shigematsu H, Shivapurkar N, Echebiri C, Nomura M, Stastny V, Augustus M, Wu CW, Wistuba II, Meltzer SJ, Gazdar AF| Title=Aberrant methylation of Reprimo in human malignancies | Journal=International Journal of Cancer | Volume=115 | Issue=4 | Year=2005 | Pages=503-10}} PMID 15700311