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Cancer genetics 癌症遗传学 Gene therapy 基因疗法 Genetic mutations predict which cancers willrespond to treatment 基因突变将预测某种治疗会对哪些癌症起作用 THE International Cancer Genome Consortium, an alliance of laboratories that is trying toproduce a definitive list of the genetic mutations that cause cancer, 国际癌症基因组协作组是试图建立一份会引起癌症的基因突变完整清单的实验室联盟， is accumulating data at an astonishing rate. 它积累数据的速度让人吃惊。 About 3,000 individual breast tumours, for example, have now had their genotypespublished. 例如，它已经发表了大约3000种不同的乳房肿瘤的基因型。 But these data will not, by themselves, help patients. 但光凭这些数据本身无法帮助患者。 For that, they have to be collected inthe context of a drug trial. 要医治病人，人们必须结合药物试验采集数据。 And this is just what Matthew Ellis and his colleagues at Washington University in St Louishave done for women suffering from breast cancer. | 
