Category: Cancer
June 27, 2019 – Mosaic
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Anchor lead: Your DNA is a lot more random than you might think, Elizabeth Tracey reports DNA is neatly packaged and essentially the same all over your body, right? Wrong, increasing evidence shows. Cristian Tomasetti, a cancer researcher at Johns …
June 21, 2019 – Cancer Survivors
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Anchor lead: Who will treat all the people who are surviving cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports By 2030, there will be millions of people who’ve survived their cancer treatment, the American Cancer Society has just reported, and while that’s great news, …
June 19, 2019 – Screening Precision
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Anchor lead: A blood test for cancer may also be able to isolate the location, Elizabeth Tracey reports Looking at patterns of DNA fragments in the blood, Johns Hopkins researcher Victor Velculescu and colleagues have developed a new screening test …
June 14, 2019 – AI and DNA
June 13, 2019 – Cancer Blood Test
June 12, 2019 – Why Response?
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Anchor lead: How can we explain why some people respond to cancer treatments and others don’t? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer treatments known as immune checkpoint inhibitors have produced amazing results in about half of people in whom they’re used. …