Tumor Map (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Tumor Map

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The UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative uses TumorMap, a tool developed by Josh Stuart's lab at UCSC, to group tumors by molecular similarity. Each color represents a type of cancer, and each dot represents a patient. This example represents a patient diagnosed with cancer at age 8 who quickly ran out of treatment options. Treehouse used TumorMap to compare his tumor to thousands of other tumors and discovered its similarity to adult lung cancer. This finding contributed to extending the patient's life by two years. Treehouse continues to develop this comparative approach and provides its analysis for pediatric cancer patients at children's hospitals.

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Stuart Lab/Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative/UCSC

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