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Making precision medicine a reality: Genomics researchers find road map to disease origin
Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. – Researchers are one step closer to understanding the genetic and biological...
Exposure to particulate air pollutants associated with numerous cancers
Researchers have found that long-term exposure to environmental pollutants was associated with increased risk of mortality for many types of...
Exposure to particulate air pollutants associated with numerous types of cancer
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a series of monographs on the evaluation of various...
New gene testing technology finds cancer risks ‘hiding in plain sight’
A research team led by an award-winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and...
A long-noncoding RNA regulates repair of DNA breaks in triple-negative breast cancer cells
PHILADELPHIA – The discovery of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has dramatically changed the understanding of the biology of diseases such...
HPV vaccination expected to reduce cancer in all races, may not eliminate all disparities
Boston, MA – Human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occur more frequently, and sometimes with more deadly consequences, among Hispanics, blacks, and...
Gut bacteria may predict risk of life-threatening infections following chemotherapy
A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota and Nantes University Hospital in France shows that the...
How cancer cells escape from tumors and spread
Metastasis. The very word evokes fear. Defined as the spread of cancer cells from one part of the body to...
African American Women with ovarian cancer — can obesity mask early symptoms?
New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2016 — African American women with ovarian cancer are more likely to die from the...
Study explains how low testosterone raises diabetes risk
Doctors have long known that men with low testosterone are at greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes. For the...
Scientific advances in lung cancer in 2015 highlighted by IASLC
DENVER – Capturing and summarizing the remarkable progress in lung cancer prevention, diagnosis, staging, and treatment in 2015, the International...
Christof Niehrs of IMB elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address key challenges faced by today's global society....
Narrow band imaging can reduce recurrence of bladder tumors
Research into bladder tumour surgery has found that using narrow band imaging can significantly reduce the risk of disease recurrence....
TJP1 protein may identify multiple myeloma patients most likely to benefit from proteasome inhibitors
A gene known as TJP1 (tight junction protein 1) could help determine which multiple myeloma patients would best benefit from...
Study links residential radon exposure to hematologic cancers in women
ATLANTA – April 28,2016 -A new report finds a statistically-significant, positive association between high levels of residential radon and the...
Recent cancer diagnosis associated with increased risk of mental health disorders
A recent cancer diagnosis was associated with increased risk for some mental health disorders and increased use of psychiatric medications,...
Study finds readability of dense breast notifications poor
(Boston)–About half of American women have dense breasts, which makes it harder for mammograms to identify cancer and add to...
How breast cancer cells slide to metastasis
Loading video… Credit: Milano et al./Biophysical Journal 2016 The spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to...
Aspirin may help prevent bile duct cancer
Regular use of aspirin was linked with a significantly reduced risk of developing bile duct cancer, also called cholangiocarcinoma, in...
Cholesterol levels, not statins, influence colorectal cancer risk
PHILADELPHIA–Long-term use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins does not appear to decrease a patient's risk of colorectal cancer,...