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Whole genetic code of 2,658 cancers were analysed in this landmark study.
It took more than a thousand scientists, 22 scientific journal papers to describe cancer complexity.
Project found average of 4-5 fundamental mutations that drive human cancer's growth.
Potential weak-spots can be exploited with treatments that attack these "driver mutations".
Researchers developed a way of "carbon dating" mutations.
First timelines of genetic mutations across the spectrum of cancer types, established.
Research by the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium, published in Nature.
