Cnio Warns of Lack of Research Into Cancer Genetics in Non-European Populations

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A study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which has the collaboration of the National Center for Oncological Research (CNIO), on the treatment of acral melanoma, alerts the lack of research in cancer genetics in non-European populations, specifically in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Melanoma, the most aggressive skin cancer, is not always caused by exposure to the sun. In fact, the most common melanoma in several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America is the acral melanoma, which has nothing to do with the sun. But this cancer has been studied little precisely because it represents a very low proportion of melanoma cases in people of European origin. A study in Nature addresses, for the first time, the genetics of acra…