Obtain the Nature Podcast 9 February 2024

For over a century, most cancers has been labeled by areas of the physique – lung most cancers, breast most cancers, pores and skin most cancers and so on. And but fashionable medical analysis is telling us that the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind cancers should not essentially tied to components of the physique. Many medicine developed to deal with metastatic cancers have the capability to work throughout many alternative cancers, and that presents a chance for extra tailor-made and environment friendly therapies. Oncologists are calling for a change in the way in which sufferers, clinicians and regulators take into consideration naming cancers.On this podcast, senior remark editor Lucy Odling-Smee speaks with Fabrice André from Institute Gustave Roussy, to ask what he thinks wants to alter.

Remark: Neglect lung, breast or prostate most cancers: why tumour naming wants to alter

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