New approaches to treatment
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Step 1 Modern medicine can produce significant clinical
data about patients suffering from specific cancers.
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Step 2 Methods developed in the HGP allow us to map
the genetic profile of cancer patients and look for linkages
between the clinical data and the abnormal genes - genomics.
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Step 3 Research scientists can begin to understand the
role of these genes and the different proteins produced
by cancer cells - proteomics.
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Step 4 Processing of all of these data opens up the
possibility of more effective early diagnosis and for
pharmacologists the prospect of designing much more selective
medicines for treating cancer.
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