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...time, the assumption was that cancer cells shared common characteristics and that therefore a drug effective against leukemia would kill, say, cancerous lung cells as well. With mouse screening, that technique brought solid advances in leukemia chemotherapy but yielded mixed results in other forms of cancer...
...other brain cancers but differ dramatically from colon cancers or leukemias. To look for common weaknesses among different types of cancer, the automation process tests chemical compounds directly against a range of 60 lines of living tumor cells grown in Petri dishes and representing seven leading cancer killers: colon, lung, melanoma, kidney, ovarian, brain and blood...
...prevent that person from ever becoming ill. Ironically, one of the first consequences of a better understanding of genetics will be an emphasis on altering the environmental contribution to disease because that's a lot easier to change. If you know you are at high risk for lung cancer, your motivation to stop smoking will increase...
Thousands of inherited diseases may be linked to the malfunctioning of specific genes. In addition, researchers are discovering that nearly every disorder has a genetic component. Last week the National Cancer Institute published two studies suggesting that susceptibility to lung cancer may be associated with a single gene...
Calvin Klein The world-famous fashion designer apparently isn't cut out for the sporting life: he suffered a concussion, two broken ribs, a bruised lung and a head laceration after being thrown from a horse on Long Island last month...