Cancer Moonshot initiative on Cancer Genomics

You are aware that cancer is the second most deadly disease killing  thousands of people daily. As  cancer is a complex disease application of high throughput genomics methods opens up new avenues for understanding and treating the disease.  Cancer genomics programme is   moving to the next level because of the initiatives made by Cancer Moonshot Programme (Click here to read more about Cancer Moon Shot Programme). As part of the US-Cancer Moonshot and the US-President’s Precision Medicine Initiative, Foundation Medicine is more than doubling the total number of patients represented within the NCI's Genomic Data Commons (GDC), bringing its total to over 32,000 patients accumulated in just over a month.  At its launch in early June, the GDC already shared more than five petabytes of raw unprocessed genomic data from large research projects on nearly thirty tumor types from more than 14,000 patients, along with associated clinical data (e.g. clinical diagnosis, treatment history, survival data), creating a foundational system for broad sharing and analysis of cancer genomic data, which is critical for advancing the field of precision medicine and improving the care of cancer patients.

Why I want to discuss about climate change now ?:

There is a real possibility of Donald Trump becoming US president. He does not believe in climate change. Read his views below:


"Well, first of all, I’m not a believer in global warming. And I’m not a believer in man-made global warming. It could be warming, and it’s going to start to cool at some point. And you know, in the early, in the 1920s, people talked about global cooling. I don’t know if you know that or not. They thought the Earth was cooling. Now, it’s global warming. And actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out, so they changed it to extreme weather, and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill. But the problem we have, and if you look at our energy costs, and all of the things that we’re doing to solve a problem that I don’t think in any major fashion exists. I mean, Obama thinks it’s the number one problem of the world today. And I think it’s very low on the list. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again. And it changes depending on years and centuries, but I am not a believer, and we have much bigger problems. You know, I talk about global warming. You know, to me, the worst global warming, and I mentioned this to you once before, is nuclear warming. That’s our global warming. That’s what I see, because we have incompetent people, and we have these rogue nations, and not even rogue nations anymore. You know, we had a case where Vladimir Putin about three months ago threw out the nuke word. And I never thought I’d hear that from a Russia. But he said they’d better, essentially, they’d better be careful, because you know, we are a nuclear nation. That was a hell of a statement for him to make. And that’s a statement that’s made because of a lack of respect."


If this is the belief of the future US president what happens to the Paris Agreement. He might scrap the agreement. If he becomes US president the world may be in trouble. I will post soon Scientific evidences available on current climate change