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2008 Echoing Green Fellow Josh Sommer stopped by our offices recently with some amazing news: researchers at Duke University and the National Cancer Institute have successfully linked a gene to familial chordoma in a paper published in Nature Genetics. 

Chordoma is slow growing bone cancer that develops in the skull-base and spine. The Chordoma Foundation was founded by Josh Sommer to improve the lives of chordoma patients by rapidly developing effective treatments and ultimately a cure for this devastating disease.

The recent paper and discovery represent a major advance in understanding chordoma, but of course, there is much more to do.  To find out more about the disease and what you can do to help, check out the Chordoma Foundation website.