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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 American men will develop prostate cancer …
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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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A genetic mutation that triggers bladder cancer in dogs is identical to a mutation that is implicated in multiple human cancers.
… our aid-as a powerful animal model for research into human cancer. … A genetic mutation that triggers bladder cancer in dogs is identical to a mutation that is implicated … for many human cancers, including aggressive skin cancer and cancer of the colon, rectum, ovary and thyroid. …
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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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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 …
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Researchers from The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network identify novel mutations in a well-known cancer-causing pathway in lung adenocarcinoma.
… Steven Benowitz … Researchers from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified novel mutations in a well-known cancer-causing pathway in lung adenocarcinoma, the most common subtype of lung cancer. Knowledge of these genomic changes may expand the …