Cancer Omics: Adding Understanding to Knowledge

“Knowledge is not understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.” This quote from Charles F. Kettering (USA, mid-20th century) applies very well to the cancer challenge. Cancer has been known and described since the antiquity.1, 2 Hippocrates (400 BC) first used the world “Karkinos” or crab, in reference to the appearance of tumors and associated blood vessels resembling a crab's legs reaching out. Karkinos later...