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Cancer Health Fall Issue
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Many Americans Missing Out on Cancer Screenings
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Breast Cancer Tumor Test Lets Many Women Avoid Chemotherapy

Millions of HIV and Cancer Funds Diverted to Detain Immigrant Children

Up to $266 million to be moved from a number of health programs. Here’s how you can help stop it.
The OptoPlate device, developed at UCSF, allows researchers to expose groups of cells engineered to respond to certain wavelengths of light to precisely programmed patterns of input.

Mutations, Drugs Drive Cancer by Blurring Growth Signals

Novel technique lets researchers control common cancer pathway in the lab with pulses of light.

Inside the NIH Website Controversy Around Alcohol and Cancer Risk

Is the U.S. government soft-pedaling information about drinking and cancer?
A computer model shows how arsenic (red and yellow spheres) interacts with and inhibits the activity of the Pin1 protein (red, white and blue).

Two Drugs Block ‘Master Regulator’ of Breast, Other Cancers

The researchers hope to develop a clinical trial to combine arsenic with the standard therapy for women with triple-negative breast cancer.
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Thousands of Breast Cancer Gene Variants Engineered and Analyzed

Findings on nearly 4,000 BRCA1 mutations will be immediately useful to many patients with previously inconclusive genetic test results.
Chromosomes prepared from a malignant glioblastoma visualized by spectral karyotyping (SKY) reveal an enormous degree of chromosomal instability—a hallmark of cancer.

Researchers Unlock Secret of Deadly Brain Cancer’s “Immortality”

New target identified in glioblastoma could be effective against a common immortality mechanism in one third of cancers.

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More Than 40 Percent of Cancers May Be Preventable
Prostate Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths, but Controversy Remains
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Tecentriq Plus Avastin Slows Kidney Cancer Progression

My father had prostate cancer. Should I be screened for this?

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and the perfect time to learn more about this common cancer.
Longtime Fred Hutch epidemiologist and member of the Program in Prostate Cancer Research, Janet Stanford, PhD

Parsing the Deadliness of Prostate Cancer

Fred Hutch researcher zeroes in on biomarkers to better predict aggressive form of the disease.

Scientists Dig Up Cancer’s Secrets Buried in ‘Gene Deserts’

So far, only a small proportion of cancers have known driver mutations, despite the best effort of hundreds of researchers worldwide.

Squelching Ovarian Cancer: The Not-So-Silent Killer

The search continues for new biomarkers, better outcomes and, yes, cures for this deadly disease.

Proton Pump Inhibitors May Raise Liver Cancer Risk

Use of medications like Prilosec and Nexium were associated with a higher liver cancer rate in a recent large study.

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Black Women and Breast Cancer

African-American women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts.
Immune cells attack a cancer cell.

What’s New in Immunotherapy?

We asked the experts what they think will be the next big breakthroughs.

Men Get Breast Cancer Too

About 480 men are expected to die from breast cancer this year.
Jamie Troil Goldfarb and husband Jeff Goldfarb in 2011

A Melanoma Diary

Jamie Troil Goldfarb, 40, is a patient advocate and works in public relations. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her husband and son.
Latonya Wilson

“But You Look Fine!”

Latonya Wilson advocates for better understanding of metastatic breast cancer and more outreach to African Americans.
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