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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
New Treatment Strategy for Aggressive Cancers Identified
The study, published in Science, details how disrupting a pathway used by cancerous cells to proliferate could be the key to inhibiting the growth and survival of tumors.
"Identification of genetic markers that predict cancer cell vulnerabilities and new drugs to exploit such vulnerabilities is a focal point of cancer research today," says senior author Lee Zou, associate scientific director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Two thirds of Cancer Cases down to 'bad luck,' New Study Claims
Last year saw more than 1.6 million new cancer cases diagnosed in the
US. While environmental and genetic factors are known to drive cancer
development, a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel
Cancer Center in Baltimore, MD, claims two thirds of cancer cases in
adults are a result of "bad luck."
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