Parts of this are already possible. A challenge, though, is that cancer cells tend to have wildly unstable genomes. Further reading - with good summaries of c

Parts of this are already possible. A challenge, though, is that cancer cells tend to have wildly unstable genomes. Further reading - with good summaries of current thinking: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of_cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of_cancer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-hit_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-hit_hypothesis I think a very interesting research area is to find the core (original, required) mutations involved in a cancer (the current understanding is that normally multiple mutations are required, occurring in a particular progression).