The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) decided to include lung adenocarcinoma as one of the three cancer tissue types in its first ever pilot project to catalogue changes in human cancers.
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) pilot project is expected to take three years. The goal of the pilot project is to sequence the genome of
lung cancer. This research will tell us how mistakes in a cell's genetic instructions lead to
lung cancer, how to prevent it from spreading and how to prevent recurrence.
Laurie Fenton, President of
lung cancer Alliance says "This is exciting news for the
lung cancer community". "For too long,
lung cancer has been ignored, under-funded and under-researched given its massive public health impact. Let us hope this novel research can map discoveries and, ultimately, cure for this most lethal of all cancers".
