The Mutographs of Cancer

Worldwide, an average of 5.9 people per 100,000 will develop esophageal cancer each year. In East Africa, that figure rises to 9.7People in the Czech Republic are more likely to be stricken by kidney or pancreatic cancer than the population of neighbouring Austria and Poland. Do these differences lie in inherited genetic variations, or is it something to do with lifestyle? Is there an unknown carcinogen lurking in the environment? Or maybe it's a bit of all three? The wild differences in rates of cancer across the world is a mystery, but a crack team of detectives are on the case. Mike Stratton from the Welcome Sanger Institute near Cambridge has assembled the