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ESMO 2012 Debate: Is there Enough Evidence to Start Using Aspirin to Reduce the Risk of Colorectal Cancer?

Aspirin, the everyday drug taken by countless people around the world to ward off pain and reduce their risk of developing heart disease, may have a new trick up its sleeve – preventing cancer. A growing body of evidence suggests that taking aspirin may reduce an individual's chances of developing colorectal cancer and perhaps other malignancies, but whether that evidence is strong enough to outweigh the risks of prescribing it to millions of healthy people is the subject of…

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Added by Peter Hofland, PhD on October 1, 2012 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Researchers Discovers Genetic Risk Factor for Skin, Prostate and Brain Cancers

Scientists at deCODE Genetics, a specialist company focused on analyzing and understanding the human genome, and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the most serious… Continue

Added by Peter Hofland, PhD on September 25, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

New Genetic Model Improves Breast Cancer Screening

Researchers using the OncoVue® (InterGenetics Inc,655 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Oklahoma City, OK 73104) clinical breast cancer model for assessing genetic risk had much higher accuracy when compared with the more commonly used Gail model, according to data presented at the 31st Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS, December 10 - 14, 2008).

By using a combination of a questionnaire and a saliva test, the OncoVue® model takes into account… Continue

Added by Peter Hofland, PhD on February 2, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments