The first volume of a book of cancer knowledge has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs.

The encyclopaedia details how hundreds of different cancer cells respond to anti-cancer agents.

Professor Charles Swanton, based at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute, said the papers were an invaluable resource that provided extremely useful intelligence for cancer researchers.

He added: This new resource will help speed up cancer research and may well begin to guide further developments in personalised cancer medicine.


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