Word: colon
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Scientists and cancer advocates are hopeful that the isolation of the gene which causes an inherited form of colon cancer, announced by Medical School researchers last week, will increase the survival rate of those in danger of contracting the disease...
...identification of the gene which causes hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, an inherited form of colon cancer, should enable doctors to screen patients before any tumor growth in order to determine whether they are predisposed to contract the disease...
According to Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Judy E. Garber, director of the cancer risk and prevention program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, screening will begin with tests for the gene in the healthy relatives of colon cancer patients...
...discovery has received particular attention in scientific circles because it was unanticipated--and came about as a result of basic genetic research not directed specifically at colon cancer...
...hunch was confirmed with the publication this summer of several scientific journal articles. According to the articles, tumor cells from patients with the inherited form of colon cancer bore a base pair sequence similar to that carried by the yeast mutants he was studying...