{
  "id": 4881035,
  "title": "A replicated patient-specific component of tumour telomere length across two pan-cancer cohorts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/a-replicated-patient-specific-component-of-tumour-telomere-length",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.31.748414v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bulk telomere length measured from tumour sequencing is routinely interpreted as a property of the cancer cells. However, a tumour specimen is a mixture, and the patient who supplies it has a telomere length of their own. Here I re-analyse published pan-cancer telomere estimates and ask how much of a tumour's telomere length is patient-specific. A calibration step comes first. Whole-genome and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}