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A repurposed cancer drug appears to reduce the severity of lesions and pain experienced by people with Proteus syndrome
… Jeannine Mjoseth … A repurposed cancer drug appears to reduce the severity of lesions and pain … goal in using the drug was very different from its use in cancer therapy. In cancer, the objective is to eliminate all …
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Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer.
… and Public Liaison Branch … Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified … potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer, including important genes and pathways that are … remodeling. Overall, the researchers identified potential drug targets in 69 percent of the tumors evaluated. They …
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Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas have discovered genomic differences in head and neck cancers caused by infection with the human papillomavirus.
… Steven Benowitz … 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 …
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Researchers are asking if the precision medicine approach will reduce or eliminate the role that race plays in prescribing drugs and in health care overall.
… the complex interplay of ancestry, health, disease and drug response. … In a May 26 New England Journal of Medicine … prescribing drugs and in health care overall. "We focus on drug therapies because that's where the precision medicine … imprecise prescribing practices. This means including in drug studies people from diverse social, racial and ethnic, …
Genetic Disorders
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer.
… Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. Each year, approximately … A woman who tests positive can also consider taking the drug tamoxifen, which has been found to reduce the risk of …
Genetic Disorders
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States.
… Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. An estimated 40 to 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have skin cancer at least once. … Skin cancer is the most common type …
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The TCGA network describes uterine and bile duct cancer.
… NHGRI Communications and Public Liaison Branch … The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a program co-funded by the National Cancer Institute and NHGRI, has greatly improved our … - outlining the molecular similarities between different cancer patients and cancer types, as well as documenting what …
Educational Resources
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
… Cancer … Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth. … Cancer, Cell Division, Mutation, DNA Error, Metastasis, Tumor, Family Health History … Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer.
… Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer. … Did you know that we are increasingly able to … found in the body, but by how their genomes have changed? Cancer is caused by changes in your genome, but advances in … technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways for diagnosing and treating many types of …
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Stomach cancers fall into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas Network have found.
… into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Network have found. In the study, … researchers think about developing treatments for stomach cancer, also called gastric cancers or gastric … trials but are not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for general use. Some tumors in the …