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According to Matthew L. Meyerson ’85, assistant professor of pathology at DFCI and HMS, the initiative will revolutionize cancer patient treatment...
Currently called the Human Cancer Genome Project (HCGP), the initiative is estimated to last nine years and cost approximately $1.35 billion if implemented. After a three-year trial period, the HCGP would be fully underway by 2008 and slated to finish...
...hope is for one nationally coordinated effort. [The HCGP] would bring it all under one roof,” said Dorie Hightower, public affairs specialist at the National Cancer Institute...
According to Hightower, big proponents of this national effort to map human cancer genomes include Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute and Leland H. Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle...
...every person will get their genome sequenced. This might eventually be a routine part of cancer care,” said Meyerson, a leader of cancer genome research at DFCI and a former Crimson editor. “You can target the events which cause cancer. I actually think this will lead to much more effective cancer treatments...