On World Cancer Day, IIT Madras marks a major milestone in India’s fight against cancer with the release of the Bharat Cancer Genome Atlas (BCGA) Database — the country’s first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible genome database for paediatric leukaemia, colorectal and pancreatic cancers. Developed under the Bharat Cancer Genome Grid (BCG2) initiative, this national effort addresses India’s long-standing underrepresentation in global cancer genome studies. With one in nine Indians likely to develop

🚨Here's what a lot of people misunderstand about cancer treatment, says Dr. Paul Marik. "Cancer is not homogeneous. The somatic mutation theory—which is the current theory in which treatment is based—posits that you have a mutation in a single cell, and that gives rise to a whole population of cells that look the same and have the same mutation. But the Cancer Genome Atlas has shown that that theory is completely wrong. The cancer cells are very heterogeneous, so they're made up of very differe