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Inherited gene variations tied to treatment-related hearing loss in cancer patients
2/12/2015
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified inherited genetic variations associated with hearing loss in young cancer patients treated with cisplatin, a drug widely used to treat...
Previously unknown genomic regions found in African American families with breast cancer
2/12/2015
Supports hypothesis that there may be genetic breast cancers specific to that populationThe "Jewels in our Genes" study, led by University at Buffalo researcher Heather Ochs-Balcom, has uncovered...
New screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs
2/12/2015
University of Chicago Medicine researchers have built a model system that uses multiple cell types from patients to rapidly test compounds that could block the early steps in ovarian cancer...
Previously unknown genomic regions found in African American families with breast cancer
2/12/2015
Supports hypothesis that there may be genetic breast cancers specific to that populationThe "Jewels in our Genes" study, led by University at Buffalo researcher Heather Ochs-Balcom, has uncovered...
Lung screening guidelines improve on study findings
2/12/2015
Lung-RADS provides framework for lung cancer screeningsA set of guidelines developed to help standardized lung cancer screening would have generated considerably fewer false-positives than the...
Cancer's ability to 'hijack' regulatory mechanism increases metastasis
2/12/2015
MD Anderson study finds connective tissue cross-links are key to epithelial lung cancer spreadWhen skyscrapers go up, contractors rely on an infrastructure of steel beams and braces.
Keck Medicine of USC researchers trace origins of colorectal cancer tumor cells
2/12/2015
Big Bang' model of tumor growth provides view into how to stop cancer before it startsFor the first time, Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) cancer researchers have...
An international joint effort between University of Helsinki and Pfizer researchers has led to the discovery of a new opportunity to treat drug-resistant leukemia with an approved renal cancer drug.
Ninety per cent approve of cancer screening but screening uptake is lower, UK
2/11/2015
Nine in 10 people think that cancer screening is 'almost always a good idea' despite the fact that screening uptake is lower, a Cancer Research UK study* in the British Journal of Cancer shows.
UK researchers have launched an ambitious project to analyse samples from over 20,000 blood cancer patients to identify how differences in their cancer cells' DNA can influence the success of...