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Doctors seek primary source of mystery cancers

January 11, 2010 by admin 

Doctors seek primary source of mystery cancers
Charity tries to save the 10,000 patients a year whose carcinomas are of unknown originJo Symons was 46 when her cancer was diagnosed. Medical scans showed that her back pain, coughing and a lump in her neck were caused by tumours that had spread to her chest, lymph nodes and other parts of her body.The primary cancer that caused these tumours, however, was never traced. Like 10,000 other individuals diagnosed in Britain each year with carcinomas of unknown primary, or CUP, the original source of her condition could not be pinpointed. As a result, doctors could not direct their treatments precisely. Despite their efforts, she died eight months later, in September 2006.But now British scientists are to launch a project aimed at tackling this problem by developing techniques for pinpointing …

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