cancer risk

The relatively new technique for visually detecting chromosomal variants associated with disease risk performs at least as well as more established techniques in two recent studies.

Mice that experienced heart attacks underwent a large-scale shift in their immune systems that allowed cancer to flourish, perhaps explaining the observation in patients.

The increased risk is slight, but aligns with a longstanding hypothesis that having more cells in one’s body leads to more chances for those cells to become cancerous.

An investigation by Politico finds the agency has been sitting on an assessment of formaldehyde’s cancer risks for a year and a half.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers find more than 850 rare, heritable genetic alterations that can predispose humans to cancer.

Researchers claim that industry groups worldwide misrepresent the carcinogenicity of alcohol products.

Childhood cancer survivors with mutations in certain cancer-risk genes have a higher risk of developing additional neoplasms later in life, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.

Despite an overall decrease in the number of US cancer deaths, some cancer types are on the rise, and disparities remain between genders and ethnicities.

A follow-up study confirms that random mutations acquired during normal stem cell division likely play a major role in cancer incidence.

Scientists produce a detailed genomic map of mutations and epigenetic changes associated with smoking tobacco across 17 tumor types. 

Mutations that arise during stem cell division contribute to the development of cancers in a variety of organs, according to a study.

People without red hair who possess the variant are also more likely to develop this form of skin cancer, researchers report.

Exposing male rats to nonionizing radiation increased the animals’ risk of brain and heart tumors in a study, but the findings are far from conclusive.

The mix of bacteria living in the oral cavity is related to a person’s risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a study.

A new study refutes one published earlier this year that claimed random mutations were at the root of many tumors.

The causes and consequences of obesity are more complicated than we thought.
 

Losing weight does not mitigate the effects of obesity on tumor development in mice.