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Understanding Cancer Series: Cancer Genome Project
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    Posted: 01/28/2005    Reviewed: 09/01/2006
Slide 3  :  Enter CGAP: NCI's Program To Study Molecular Changes in Cancer

Scientists know that cancer arises when a cell undergoes several molecular changes. These changes take place over many years, and only when the cell has accumulated a critical number of these changes does it become a "cancer" cell.

In 1996, the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) began. This program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is studying the molecular changes that occur when a normal cell is transformed into a cancer cell.

Enter CGAP: NCI's Program To Study Molecular Changes in Cancer