Radiation therapy is used to treat more than half of all cancer patients, but it's not without its drawbacks. A new study published in the journal Nature Genetics suggests ways to make the treatment more effective.Radiation therapy works by killing tumor cells or damaging their DNA and ability to replicate. But the new study finds cellular repair mechanisms can cause mutations
Cheryl Willman, M.D. has been named Executive Director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and Director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic is the nation’s top-ranked health care delivery system and hospital. In her new role, Dr..
May 13, 2021 at 6:16AM
Cathie Wood has gained notoriety from making some seemingly outlandish calls on stocks and for being right. Her company s extrapolation of real world data and technological trends has proved to be an incredibly profitable investing strategy, even after some recent turbulence.
One of her less controversial projections is around preventative cancer screening. Specifically, she and her team believe liquid-biopsy screening for cancer could grow to a $150 billion market as the cost of tests drop.
The thinking is that early screening is the best way to save lives, since all solid tumors progress from treatable and local to lethal and metastatic. The falling cost of sequencing the human genome has introduced many new use cases, and the U.S. health system will likely adopt routine screening as costs drop below $1,000. If the projection proves true, three of her portfolio s companies
The Translational Genomics Research Institute
In the largest study of the associations between smoking and cardiovascular disease on cognitive function, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, found both impair the ability to learn and memorize; and that the effects of smoking are more pronounced among females, while males are more impaired by cardiovascular disease.
The results appear today in the journal Scientific Reports.
Previous attempts to quantify cognitive function among smokers and assess sex differences produced mixed results. The TGen researchers attribute this to the limited size of previous data sets. By analyzing data representing more than 70,000 individuals worldwide generated through TGen’s online cognitive test called MindCrowd the current study produced results that indicate definitive trends.