Cancer Initiation Events May Be Similar across Many Tissues

Discovering commonality among disease states is no easy task, but it is an essential part of developing therapies that could have a much broader impact on the population. This strategy has been most difficult for cancer, which confusingly to some degree, is a collection of diseases grouped under one moniker. However now, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis have demonstrated that mature cells in the stomach sometimes revert to behaving like rapidly dividi