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A challenge, though, is that cancer cells tend to have wildly unstable genomes.
Further reading - with good summaries of current thinking: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of_cancer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-hit_hypothesis
I think a very interesting research area is to find the core (original, required) mutations involved in a cancer (the current understanding is that normally multiple mutations are required, occurring in a particular progression).
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A challenge, though, is that cancer cells tend to have wildly unstable genomes.
Further reading - with good summaries of current thinking: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of_cancer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-hit_hypothesis
I think a very interesting research area is to find the core (original, required) mutations involved in a cancer (the current understanding is that normally multiple mutations are required, occurring in a particular progression).