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NHGRI researchers have identified a genomic signature for some aggressive prostate tumors, which may help healthcare providers pinpoint treatment options.
… the aggressive, potentially life-threatening tumors from curable, less aggressive tumors. … Researchers with the National Human Genome Research … a specific genomic signature of some aggressive prostate tumors, which may help health care providers pinpoint …
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NIH-funded researchers completed the PanCancer Atlas from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer.
… set of molecular and clinical information from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer. … More than 10,000 Tumors Analyzed "This project is the culmination of more than … with unprecedented understanding of how, where and why tumors arise in humans, enabling better informed clinical …
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An ancient, sexually transmitted dog cancer may provide insights into human cancers because of the similarities in the dog and human immune systems.
… unhealthy dog tumor genomes, they found mutations in the tumors' genes that are involved in the ability of the host's … as dangerous outsiders. "The immune systems in dogs with tumors had lost the ability to recognize cancer cells because … it successfully for more than five thousand years." "Most tumors employ strategies to avoid destruction by the immune …
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TCGA researchers have found that chromophobe renal cell carcinoma stems partly from gene alterations in the mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier.
… examining the entire genomes of 50 of the 66 ChRCC tumors studied, a high number for a rare cancer. The study … DNA. This led researchers to discover that ChRCC tumors favor a different energy-generating process than that … in the mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier. … Kidney tumors, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, ChRCC, The Cancer …
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NIH researchers have identified a striking signature in tumor DNA that occurs in five different types of cancer.
… around the gene known as ZNF154 that is unique to tumors." Dr. Elnitski is head of the Genomic Functional … identified the methylation mark using DNA taken from solid tumors. "No one in my group slept the night after that … methylation marks in the mixture. Knowing that tumors often shed DNA into the bloodstream, they calculated …
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Learn what happens when two genetic neighborhoods merge in brain tumor cells after a gene controlled by a gene-control switch turned on a cancer-growth gene.
… the most common type of brain tumor in adults, but these tumors are difficult to treat. The research team noticed that … folded, causing genetic neighborhoods to merge. Within the tumors that have a mutated IDH gene, scientists found that …
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A the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors has identified mutations in the TAF1 gene.
… genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors to date, National Human Genome Research Institute … also demonstrated that the mutation profiles of CCEC tumors are sometimes similar to other types of uterine … at identifying genes that are mutated (changed) in the tumors of patients with clinically aggressive forms of …
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Stomach cancers fall into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas Network have found.
… to explore therapies in defined sets of patients whose tumors have specific genomic abnormalities. Stomach cancers … complex statistical analyses of molecular data from 295 tumors. They used six molecular analysis platforms including … DNA sequencing, RNA sequencing, and protein arrays. Tumors in the first group, which represented 9 percent of the …
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NIH researchers searched for how the body signals the lack of oxygen in melanoma skin cancer.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Cancerous tumors are voracious. Once they have consumed all the oxygen … trials are focused on targeting genetic changes in tumors and helping to boost one's immune system to fight the …
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Receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel like losing control of everything.
… an aggressive tumor - neither of which are ideal. … How tumors differ from each other - either in different organs or … to the patient's specific tumor. A massive new analysis of tumors, published online April 17 in Epigenetics & Chromatin, … ignored among other issues." Researchers have found that tumors with CIMP are linked to different outcomes for …