Teachers TV: Cancer and the Genome: The Issue
Last updated 26 February 2012, created 17 June 2010, viewed 2,299
In ‘KS3/4 Science’, Dr Andy Futreal, co-founder of the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge discusses cancer. Cancer is when cells start to behave in inappropriate ways, including uncontrollable cell division. The root cause of all cancers is mutations i More… Sarah Walsh is a young woman living with melanoma. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer and studies show that one of the biggest risk factors for melanoma is overexposure to UV, either from the sun or tanning beds.
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