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Prostate cancer is a disease where certain cells in the prostate become abnormal and multiply to form a tumor.
… Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men aside from skin cancer. One in 6 … out of the body (the urethra). It sits just below the bladder. … Age: A man's age is the strongest risk factor for …
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Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas have discovered genomic differences in head and neck cancers caused by infection with the human papillomavirus.
… Steven Benowitz … Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have discovered … … The researchers also uncovered new smoking-related cancer subtypes and potential new drug targets, and found numerous genomic similarities with other cancer types. Taken together, this study's findings may …
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NIH scientists proposed a new approach for finding ways to impede or halt cancer's spread: transgenic zebrafish as a live animal model of metastasis.
… Bruce Agnew … For many cancer patients and their doctors, the deadliest enemy is metastasis - the migration of cancer cells from the original tumor to other places in the body. In at least 90 percent of hard-tumor cancer deaths, the killer isn't the original cancer but …
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Receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel like losing control of everything.
… Kyle Davis … Receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel like losing control of everything. … its natural defenses, which can then lead to diseases like cancer," said Laura Elnitski, Ph.D., a senior investigator in … chance of survival. But the same isn't true for prostate cancer, where it can indicate more aggressive cancers. Thus, …
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Researchers are trying to understand a process whose rules are constantly being written and rewritten by cancer's rogue cells: who will more likely relapse.
… Kyle Davis … For a patient with cancer, two of the most important words in the oncologist's … hear the word remission - meaning both their symptoms and cancer are abating. Some may even get to full remission - no detectable cancer. But, unfortunately, some patients will hear the word …
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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.
… Steven Benowitz … An ancient, sexually transmitted dog cancer - that may provide insights into human cancers because … Canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT, spreads when cancer cells move from one dog to the other during sexual … immune systems from detecting and fending off invading cancer cells. They reported their results online July 31, …
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The Cancer Genome Atlas identified molecular subtypes to help clinicians determine which tumors are more aggressive and which will respond to treatment.
… thyroid carcinomas (PTC) - the most common form of thyroid cancer - has provided new insights into the roles of frequently mutated cancer genes and other genomic alterations that drive disease … diagnosis and treatment. … WHAT: Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network identified new …
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A the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors has identified mutations in the TAF1 gene.
… … In the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors to date, National Human Genome Research … tumors are sometimes similar to other types of uterine cancer, namely serous endometrial cancers or endometrioid … The study was published May 9, 2017, in the journal Cancer . … Largest Study of Its Kind Endometrial cancer is …
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NIH researchers have identified a striking signature in tumor DNA that occurs in five different types of cancer.
… in tumor DNA that occurs in five different types of cancer. They also found evidence that this methylation signature may be present in many more types of cancer. The specific signature results from a chemical … will next begin screening blood samples from patients with bladder, breast, colon, pancreatic and prostate cancers to …
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How well cancer patients fare after chemotherapy can be affected by their social interaction with other patients during treatment.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … How well cancer patients fare after chemotherapy can be affected by … and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. … Cancer patients were a little more likely to survive for five … out to see if the impact of social interaction extended to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Joining this …