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Published on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 by mcypen
Identifying large-scale chromosomal damage through a whole-genome scan can help doctors choose the best option for treatment of neuroblastoma in children. An international collaboration led by The Institute of Cancer Research, London, England, called for all children with neuroblastoma to undergo a whole-genome scan as a standard part of their treatment. The study was...
Published on Thursday, August 9, 2012 by mcypen
SALT LAKE CITY—A new study of the genetic makeup, or genome, of Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that strikes children, teenagers, and young adults, has produced multiple discoveries: a previously unknown sarcoma subtype, genetic factors related to long-term survival, and identification of a genetic change between the primary and metastatic stages of the disease that co...
Published on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by mcypen
Chemotherapy is poison that happens to kill cancer cells faster than it kills healthy cells; that it wreaks havoc on the bodies of patients is unsurprising. But chemo may also affect their unborn children. According to a new study in PNAS, the offspring of mice treated with chemotherapy have higher rates of mutation, even though the offspring themselves were never exp...
Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by mcypen
The human genome is the complete set of instructions needed to assemble and sustain human life. Leukemia and other cancers develop when normal cells accumulate mutations in the genome that cause the unchecked cell growth that is a hallmark of cancer. The three-year Pediatric Cancer Genome Project is sequencing the genomes of tumor cells and matched normal DNA samples ...
Published on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by mcypen
Scientists are now finding that certain types of cancer in animals are similar to those in humans, in both how they develop and how they behave in response to treatment, and understanding them better may answer some important questions about cancer in children.
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Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 by mcypen
Cancer survival could improve with genome sequencing
Experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham say whole-genome sequencing could lead to higher survival rates for cancer patients.
Whole-genome sequencing is a process where a person's DNA is mapped and analyzed for mutations. This allows for doctors to personalize cancer treatments for individual patients....
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