A new saliva test can measure the amount of potential carcinogens stuck to a person’s DNA interfering with the action of genes involved in health and disease and could lead to a commercial test to help determine risks for cancer and other diseases, scientists reported here today during the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of ...
Children’s Medical Center has named Dr. Stephen X. Skapek director of the hospital’s nationally ranked Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Skapek also becomes the director of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division, where he holds the Children’s Cancer Fund Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Oncology Research. “I came to Children’s Medical Center and UT ...
When investigating cancer cells, researchers discovered numerous peculiarities: Particular RNA molecules are present in large numbers, particular genes are overactive. Do these characteristics have a relation to cancer? Do they promote cell growth? Do they inactivate growth brakes or are they just a whim of nature? To find clues for answering these questions scientists perform ...
In 2001, the U.S. National Cancer Institute established the Cancer Outcomes Measurement Working Group to evaluate measurements of the important and diverse impacts of cancer on individuals and populations. The findings and recommendations of the working group’s 35 internationally recognized members are reported here, lucidly written and accessible to both researchers and policy makers in ...
In an article published online in Nature Genetics, a University of Colorado Cancer Center team in partnership with universities in China and Denmark reports the first genetic sequencing of urothelial (transitional) carcinoma, the most prevalent type of bladder cancer. Recognizing the genetic mutations that make bladder cancer cells different than their healthy neighbors may allow ...