In the Pink: Crowdsourcing effort takes aim at deadliest breast cancers
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Lara MacCregor, a participant in a new crowdsourcing project for metastatic breast cancer research undergoes treatment at the Norton Cancer Center, Wednesday, Sep. 21, in Louisville Ky. In just the first few months more than 1,000 affected women have enrolled in the project, submitting saliva, tumor samples and medical records by mail, and the effort has already yielded some unexpected findings.