Uploaded October 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
One in three people in the Western world will develop cancer and one in five will die from the disease, but what is cancer and what causes it? Yourgenome.org presents a film of Professor Mike Stratton, Director of the Sanger Institute describing how cancer can develop in the human body.
Professor Stratton's research in the Cancer Genome Project uses genome-wide searches for somatic mutations in human cancer in order to identify new cancer genes and to understand the genetic changes that take place during human cancer development. He led the group that discovered the high-risk breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, and his research has led to the discovery of mutations in genes that lead to melanoma and lung cancer.
Find out more about cancer on our website: yourgenome.org/theme/is-cancer-a-genetic-disease
One in three people in the Western world will develop cancer and one in five will die from the disease, but what is cancer and what causes it? Yourgenome.org presents a film of Professor Mike Stratton, Director of the Sanger Institute describing how cancer can develop in the human body.
Professor Stratton's research in the Cancer Genome Project uses genome-wide searches for somatic mutations in human cancer in order to identify new cancer genes and to understand the genetic changes that take place during human cancer development. He led the group that discovered the high-risk breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, and his research has led to the discovery of mutations in genes that lead to melanoma and lung cancer.
Find out more about cancer on our website: yourgenome.org/theme/is-cancer-a-genetic-disease
