http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Believe it or not, while researchers have explored which genes are mutated in each type of tobacco-associated cancer, until now no one had thought to look across these types for common genes that might predict patient outcomes. Results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 show that in lung and bladder cancers, genes related to the regulation of the cell cycle are associated with poor patient outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-misregulated-genes-common-tobacco-related-cancers.html Cancer Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:39:36 EST news284719159 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases with no effective treatment. Researchers are beginning to recognize ALS and FTD as part of a spectrum disorder with overlapping symptoms. Now investigators reporting online February 12 in the Cell Press journal Neuron have discovered an abnormal protein that first forms as a result of genetic abnormalities and later builds up in the brains of many patients with either disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-identification-abnormal-protein-als-frontotemporal.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:30:01 EST news279894429 Stomach cancer is actually two distinct disease variations based on its genetic makeup, and each responds differently to chemotherapy, according to an international team of scientists led by researchers at Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-genetic-differences-distinguish-stomach-cancers.html Cancer Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:10:01 EST news231431945