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Background There has been a paradigm shift in cancer treatment from curing disease to both curing disease and caring for patients. In terms of care for patients, the opinions of patients and their families are important for improving medical services ...
Kenji Takao +4 more
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Identifying individuals who are at high risk of cancer due to inherited germline mutations is critical for effective implementation of personalized prevention strategies.
Gavin Lee +6 more
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Acromegaly and the risk of cancer
Recent studies suggest that acromegaly might predispose to an increased risk of benign and malignant neoplasms, thus influencing the final outcome of the disease. The exact mechanism of neoplastic events in acromegaly has not been completely clarified. Several studies indicate an autocrine-paracrine role for growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth ...
Bogdan, Marek +5 more
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Education and cancer risk [PDF]
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the ...
Leuven, E., Plug, E., Rønning, M.
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RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data
DNA methylation is a widely investigated epigenetic mark with important roles in development and disease. High-throughput assays enable genome-scale DNA methylation analysis in large numbers of samples.
Fabian Müller +6 more
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Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive exocrine tumor with largely unknown biology. Here, the authors perform genome- and epigenome-wide analyses from normal and ACC pancreatic tissue that identify aberrations in genome stability and ...
Cornelia Jäkel +15 more
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Psoriasis and the Risk of Cancer
To test the validity of the common hypothesis that patients with psoriasis have an inherently lower susceptibility to cancer, we prospectively studied 1367 patients with severe psoriasis who enrolled in a clinical trial of oral methoxsalen photochemotherapy for treatment of psoriasis for an average of 3.2 yr.
Stern, Robert +2 more
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Design and implementation of an Internet‐Based cancer risk assessment tool: Use over 10 years
Background Prevention and early intervention can improve survival and quality of life across all cancers. Patient understanding of risk factors and associated actionable lifestyle changes and screening programs is not well understood by clinicians ...
Michael J. LaRiviere +10 more
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Kynurenine formation by tryptophan-catabolic indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) plays a key role in tumor immune evasion and inhibition of IDO1 is efficacious in preclinical models of breast cancer. As the response of breast cancer to immune checkpoint
Dyah L. Dewi +21 more
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Carcinogenesis from chronic exposure to radio-frequency radiation
The past two decades have seen exponential growth in demand for wireless access that has been projected to continue for years to come. Meeting the demand would necessarily bring about greater human exposure to microwave and radiofrequency (RF) radiation.
James C. Lin
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