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Elaine Ostrander is chief of NHGRI's Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch.
… is Chief and Distinguished Senior Investigator of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch at the … Dr. Ostrander joined the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington in 1993, … lab uses state-of-the-art genomic approaches to identify prostate cancer susceptibility genes in both high-risk …
Talking Glossary
El cáncer es una enfermedad en la que algunas células del cuerpo crecen fuera de control. Hay muchos tipos diferentes de cáncer, y cada uno comienza cuando una única célula adquiere un cambio genómico (o mutación) que le permite dividirse y multiplicarse sin control.
Genetic Disorders
Colon cancer is a malignant tumor of the large intestine that affects both men and women.
… Colon cancer, a malignant tumor of the large intestine, affects … States, approximately 160,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed each year. … Colon cancer, a malignant tumor of the large intestine, affects … States, approximately 160,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed each year. The majority of colon cancer …
News Release
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas have discovered genomic differences in head and neck cancers caused by infection with the human papillomavirus.
… Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have discovered … The researchers also uncovered new smoking-related cancer subtypes and potential new drug targets, and found numerous genomic similarities with other cancer types. Taken together, this study's findings may …
Educational Resources
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the first two genes found to be associated with inherited forms of breast cancer.
… found to be associated with inherited forms of breast cancer. … Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Genetic Mutation, Genes, DNA Repair, Family Health … found to be associated with inherited forms of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. People with mutations in either BRCA1 or BRCA2 have a …
News Release
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel like losing control of everything.
… 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 … a higher chance of survival. But the same isn't true for prostate cancer, where it can indicate more aggressive …
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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.
… 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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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. …
News Release
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.
… 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.
… 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, …