A Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Needs Big Data

Re:A Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Needs Big Data by nonbel on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:40AM (#10908014)

>"the time between the first mutation in say BRAF and a metastatic cancer is 20 to 40 years"

Actually do you have a ref for this? I can't easily think of how they would date the mutation.

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Re:A Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Needs Big Data by danieltillett on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:17AM (#10908530)

I haven’t got one off the top of my head, but it is pretty well known. An really good example was the atomic bombs in Japan. They tracked all the survivors and when they got cancer and the delay was in decades.

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