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A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The study, the largest of its kind, recruited 7,500 men from eastern, southern and west Africa. The ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Pancreatic cancer has recently been included in the list of diseases about which Brazil's National Cancer Institute (INCA) periodically publishes statistics. Although it is not the most frequent type of cancer, its high lethality ...
Dec 6, 2024
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Scientists have worked out a way of predicting how long a prostate cancer patient will continue to respond to the PARP inhibitor drug olaparib, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Cell.
Nov 21, 2024
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Each cell in our body experiences up to tens of thousands of DNA-damaging events per day, primarily from routine cellular maintenance or exposure to toxins in our environment. Despite the high frequency of wear-and-tear, ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)in Australia have found a new way to predict a subset of patients who are likely to become resistant to PARP inhibitors (PARPi), a key therapy used to treat ovarian ...
Nov 13, 2024
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People inherit two copies of each gene—one from each parent—an evolutionary fail-safe to ensure survival even when one of them doesn't function.
Nov 11, 2024
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University of Oregon biologists have uncovered a mechanism by which a well-known breast cancer gene also influences fertility. Mutations in the BRCA1 gene sharply increase a person's risk of developing breast cancer, and ...
Oct 29, 2024
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A new study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is shedding light on a novel role of breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) in tumor suppression.
Oct 25, 2024
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People with grandparents from a remote Scottish island are more likely than the rest of the U.K. population to have a version of a gene that increases cancer risk.
Oct 24, 2024
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Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative medical sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered that food antigens like milk proteins help keep tumors from growing in our guts, specifically the small intestines. ...
Sep 18, 2024
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