2018 CVM News: Which genes are real drivers of cancer?

This news item from Cornell Research is about: Scientists have long attempted to puzzle out the enigma that is cancer. Over the last decade, geneticists and others have taken to analyzing thousands of tumors of all types, using high throughput genomic technology that seeks to find all the genes that are mutated across cancers. While these methods generate lists of affected genes, understanding what those mutations contribute to the actual occurrence of cancer is much more difficult to grasp