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Nature Medicine 12, 719 (2006)
Published online: 28 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nm0706-719a
Informed consent issues hobble cancer genome scheme
Emily Waltz1
- New York
Abstract
There may not be enough tumor samples available for the project.
The federal government's ambitious cancer genome project is facing daunting ethical and practical hurdles, barely months after its launch.The Cancer Genome Atlas aims to catalog the genetic mutations associated with cancer based on tumor samples from tissue banks.
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