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That underscores the complex effect that alcohol has on the body, especially in women: excess alcohol can lead to a greater risk of developing breast cancer, while moderate consumption of a glass of wine a day may help reduce heart disease risk. So whatever potential gains a nightly beer or glass of red may have on slimming down love handles, the benefits must be balanced against the other potential gains and risks of alcohol consumption. (Watch TIME's video "How to Lose Hundreds of Pounds...
...think that it is part of the change in cancer diagnosis as no longer looking at cancer as lung cancer or breast cancer, but as caused by a particular type of genetic alteration,” Meyerson said...
Although this study is unique in that it indicates a promising universal view of the cancer landscape, Beroukhim said it would not have been possible without the context of current cancer research...
...This study happened now because there are more tumor samples available and in higher resolutions,” Beroukhim said. “We can really determine what gives rise to different cancer types...
...promise of their findings has already prompted funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Sarah Thomas Monopoli Lung Cancer Research Fund, the Lucas Foundation, and several drug companies—most notably Novartis—in the hope of developing drugs that may specifically target common genetic alterations across cancer types...