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Hundreds of veterans have contacted groups reporting illnesses they believe resulted from their exposure to toxic smoke from burn pits, used by military contractors to get rid of all kinds of trash in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands more may be affected.

Scientists have decoded the entire genome of a cancer patient and found a set of mutations that might have caused the disease or aided its progression. Researchers are hopeful that the newly discovered genes will give them more ways to attack cancer in the future.