Mitzi, Linda and me
A long time ago
Not what I wanted to read!
Our British brethren newly report on the genomics of ovarian
cancer. Apparently OVCA cells are a
frightful mess, harboring every kind of mutation you have ever heard of, and
maybe more. They (the Btits) have done what has become
fashionable nowadays; turned Big Data algorithms loose to look for similarities. Big Data has presented them with seven basic
patterns, and – in some cases – more than one per patient. Several of these patterns are good news, but
others are nasty.
Why I dislike this result is obvious. Immunotherapy works, it seems to me, by
recognizing fairly simple genetic problems, and then fixing them. But how go after a roiling pool of problems?
Still, every little bit of data counts.
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