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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Colon Cancer Gene Discovered | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

Once identified, those who do carry the gene will be carefully monitored so that any tumor which begins to grow may be detected early...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Colon Cancer Gene Discovered | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Colon Cancer Gene Discovered | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...Bateson at U.H.S. Dr. Bateson helped me out last year when I was in a jam, and he told me to look him up if any of my friends ever had problems. He specializes in severe mental disorders. For years Nick has been wondering if he has a brain tumor, so it should be easy to get him in. A couple of weeks in Stillman should calm Nick down enough to get him off my back. I love Nick, but I need my sleep...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: There is something wrong | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Bischoff said that understanding young blood vessel formation, or angiogenesis, could lead to improved clinical techniques to aid in wound healing or limit tumor growth, since tumors grow by inducing capillary formation in the surrounding tissue...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: RESEARCH BRIEFS | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

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