Ananyo writes "Norway is set to become the first country to incorporate genome sequencing into its subject health-care system. The Scandinavian nation, which has a state of 4.8 million, will use 'next-generation' DNA sequencers to trawl for mutations in tumors that might reveal which cancer treatments would be most effective. In its three-year pilot phase, the Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium will sequence the tumor genomes of 1,000 calling in the hope of influencing their treatments. It will also look at another 3,000 back when obtained tumor biopsies to get a better idea of the mutations in avant-garde cancers, and how they prominence a patient's working




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copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group to a drug. In a second phase, the project will build the laboratory, clinical and bookkeeping root needed to bring such care to the 25,000 Norwegians who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Similar projects are under way in the United Kingdom and at probe hospitals in the United States, France and elsewhere. But Norway's will be among the first to look for tumor mutations using next-generation DNA sequencing rather than accepted genetic testing."

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