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Tue 06 Jun 2004Surgery will be determined by genes before tumours appearPreventionCancer treatment of the future may involve treating patients before tumours even develop, according to Prof John Reynolds, cancer surgeon at St James's Hospital, Dublin."Cancer surgeons of the future will have to be involved in treating patients where their genetics has indicated they will get a cancer in the future," he says.