The origins of seven types of kidney cancer, including several rare subtypes, have been identified by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and Oncode Institute. The findings confirm that these cancers have their origin in specific forms of developmental cells present in the maturing fetus.
The study, published today (23 June) in Nature Communications, used computational methods to analyse existing datasets and pinpoint the ‘cellular signals’ given off by different cancers as they emerge.
