A big new project aims to gather information through crowdsourcing about breast cancer in hopes of treating patients whose cancer has metastasized and left them nearly out of options. Cancer will likely kill many of the 150,000-plus patients nationwide whose tumors have spread.
The idea is to gather molecular and genetic clues from a broad group of metastatic breast cancer patients. With data from thousands of people, researchers think they might be able to answer questions such as: What allows a very few women to outlive others by many years despite the same prognosis?
