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Radio 4,8 mins

"20,000 cancer genomes have now been sequenced"

World at One

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Martha Kearney interviews Sir Mike Stratton about his world class genetic research at the Sanger Institute. The research there has enabled the development of drugs to effectively treat skin cancer. Patient Sarah Mallyon was a beneficiary of their work.

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