Sentences with phrase «national cancer»

This test, reported at the European Association of Urology conference in London, and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, may give men a better view on how to deal with their prostate cancer risk.

The team is now working to create a repository of pancreatic tumor samples, coordinating with the National Cancer Institute.

A new paper published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that arsenic in drinking water may have one of the longest dormancy periods of any carcinogen.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) director Andrew von Eschenbach was appointed acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Friday after FDA's embattled chief abruptly resigned.

So William Murphy and Eduardo Eizirik of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, joined forces with Mark Springer of the University of California, Riverside, to combine DNA evidence with Bayesian inference.

Still, without definitive proof of the PSA test's worth, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and others say only that the test should be «offered»; in contrast, they recommend that women «should be screened» for breast and cervical cancer.

The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, used data from comprehensive dental exams performed on 7,466 participants from Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, and North Carolina, as part of their participation in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study who were then followed from the late 1990s until 2012.

For the system to work well, you have to do it,» says Eduardo Moreno, a junior group leader at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain.

But Jeff Struewing of the National Cancer Institute believes the mutation will lead to disease in a large proportion of cases.

The laboratory of Marcos Malumbres, who is head of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's (CNIO) Cell Division & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas» team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, how in mice the elimination of the Cdh1 protein — a sub-unit of the APC / C complex, involved in the control of cell division — prevents cellular proliferation of rapidly dividing cells.

«The results hold promise for preventive medicine,» says Maria Blasco of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.

Donna Vogel is director of the Fellowship Office at the National Cancer Institute and co-chair of the ORWH Research Subcommittee.

Schaeffer's research team analyzed information from the National Cancer Data Base.

The study was funded by grant number K08CA190855 from the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health.

As part of a DNA study of the world's cats, Stephen O'Brien and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, collected blood and tissue samples from 209 puma in zoos, museums, and the wild across North and Central America, and from 106 of the animals in South America.

The sequence, from researchers at the US National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, is of a 4 - year - old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon.

These rates are calculated by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, which collects survival data from state registries covering about 26 percent of the U.S. population.

Stephen J. OBrien of the National Cancer Institute and his colleagues analyzed DNA obtained from 195 free - ranging elephants from across Africa, as well as DNA from seven Asian elephants (which were already considered a separate species).

Another is the «disconnect» between the needs of postdocs and PIs, which Jonathan Weist of the National Cancer Institute (and winner of an NCI award for outstanding mentoring) cited in a talk at the NPA meeting.

He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney studying cancer cell biology, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

While Allison's early research that led to Yervoy was funded by the National Cancer Institute, «since then, there have been no major initiatives to accelerate progress in this area.»

So researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in Frederick, Maryland, again turned to DNA.

In addition, the National Cancer Institute is funding Belcher to use viruses to find peptides that can specifically identify cancer cells.

But the fact that there is «no long tradition in science is an advantage,» claims Erwin Wagner, director of the Cancer Cell Biology Programme at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO) in Madrid.

Co-authors on the paper are Guilin Qiao, Jianzhong Qin, Nicholas Kunda, Jed Calata, Dolores Mahmud, Peter Gann and Bellur Prabhakar of UIC; Yang - Xin Fu of the University of Texas Southwestern; and Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute.

► On Wednesday, Harold Varmus announced that he intends to step down as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), after 5 years in the position.

The tech transfer internship program at the University of Michigan is run by Elaine Brock, the director of the Medical School's Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Research, a lawyer who was also trained in health services administration; and assistant director Maria Sippola - Thiele, a former National Cancer Institute postdoc who subsequently got her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

According to the National Cancer Institute, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate, unchanged for the previous 50 years, has dropped 36 percent.

For the retrospective, population - based study, the researchers used the National Cancer Database (NCDB), a nation - wide outcomes registry of the American College of Surgeons, the American Cancer Society and the Commission on Cancer that captures approximately 70 percent of newly - diagnosed cases of cancer in the country.

In 1996, I relinquished an endowed chair of oncology at UNC Chapel Hill to become the scientific director of the Division of Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) near Washington, D.C..

The United States spends more than $ 12 billion on lung cancer treatments, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The team's work was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund.

Funding for the trial was provided by the US National Cancer Institute through the National Clinical Trials Network including NRG Oncology and ECOG - ACRIN.

It is led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Russia has placed no restrictions on foreign scientists, Poroikov says, and the 300 attendees include several from the United States including the plenary speaker, Marc Nicklaus of the National Cancer Institute.

A search of the CRISP database of NIH - funded research projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two projects).

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

«Family history now matters more than ever,» says Stephen Chanock, a pediatric oncologist and head of the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.

The research team from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both parts of NIH, extended their recent genome sequencing study of skin bacteria, using DNA sequencing techniques optimized for identifying fungi.

For their study, researchers led by Anthony Robbins, M.D., Ph.D., American Cancer Society director of health services research, analyzed data from nearly 260,000 cancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer Database.

For the current study, scientists led by Helmneh Sineshaw, M.D., MPH, analyzed data from 260,174 breast cancer cases recorded in the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a national hospital - based cancer registry database jointly sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society.

In 2016, the U.S. National Cancer Institute launched a scheme to develop more than 1000 cell culture models, including organoids, for researchers around the world to use, together with Cancer Research UK in London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., and HUB.

The researchers acknowledge the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium and the Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME - ON): a National Cancer Institute Post-Genome Wide Association Study Initiative (U19 - CA148112).

In 2016, the disease was predicted to strike an estimated 53,070 Americans and kill 41,780, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.

John Niederhuber, the director of the National Cancer Institute, is not a fan of Sunday's front - page article in The New York Times that harshly critiques how cancer research is funded.

Lymphoma Genomic Translational Research Laboratory, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore 169610, Singapore.

Anna Barker, deputy director of the National Cancer Institute, said a systemic reform of the clinical trial system is «long overdue.»

Abstract of the research paper Donald Small's page at Johns Hopkins University Brian Druker's page at Oregon Health and Science University Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia, from the National Cancer Institute's CancerNet