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Tuesday 23 Dec 2014 - 12:25 Makkah mean time-1-3-1436  London (IINA) - Thousands of cancer patients could be spared the ordeal of gruelling chemotherapy in future, thanks to a major new project to read our DNA, Daily Mirror newspaper reported.
Experts believe that unlocking the secrets of patient's genetic code will lead to faster diagnosis and lead to better use of current medicines.
And it is even predicted that new cancer wonder drugs could kill tumours without harming healthy tissue and make chemotherapy redundant within 20 years.
The project, which launched today in the United Kingdom, aims to read the genetic blueprint, or genome, of around 75,000 volunteers.
This includes patients with breast, bowel, ovarian and lung cancers and leukaemia, and people with rare genetic diseases and their relatives.
Rare genetic diseases will also benefit from the 100,000 Genomes Project, which is set to combine genetic data with information from health records to give Britain the greatest healthcare system in the world.
National Health Service (NHS) England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh said the £300million initiative puts the UK in a position to unlock a series of secrets about devastating diseases which have remained hidden for centuries and to unlock those on behalf of the whole of humankind.
Prof Mark Caulfield, the project’s chief scientist, added if there was just one medicine that came out of this programme that would be well worth the investment.
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