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Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

BRCA1 and 2, genes whose proteins are supposed to work as tumor suppressors and also repair DNA damage, were the first known risk factor genes for familial breast cancer as well as ovarian and other cancers.

Because bazedoxifene has already undergone safety and efficacy studies as a treatment for osteoporosis, it may be a viable near - term option for patients with advanced breast cancer whose tumors have become resistant to other treatment options, Wardell reported.

To explore this idea, Hopkins oncologists Dung Le, Luis Diaz, and others looked for mismatch repair mutations in tumor samples from patients with advanced colon cancer and other cancer types whose tumors had stopped responding to other treatments.

Three groups of volunteers were recruited: 10 colon cancer patients whose tumors had the genetic problem; 18 colon cancer patients without it; and 7 patients with other malignancies with the defect.

NCT02650986), which is open to adult patients with various types of advanced cancer whose tumors express NY - ESO - 1, or other clinical trials available at Roswell Park, please call 1 -800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355) or send an e-mail inquiry to [email protected].

The researchers, studying women with node - negative breast cancer — the small, early tumors sought by mammography — found that by adding E-cadherin to other biomarkers that they have studied they are able to distinguish those patients with a 90 percent long - term survival from those whose survival is only 44 percent.

Patients whose melanoma tumors do not have BRAF alterations will have other specific genetic alterations identified and these changes will be matched to an appropriate therapy that directly targets those alterations.

The mutations may be in genes governing some aspect of the immune system but they might also be in tumor suppressor genes whose job it is to seek out and destroy cancerous cells, genes that control cell division, genes that control normal cell death, and other types as well.