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A the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors has identified mutations in the TAF1 gene.
… Branch … In the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors to date, National Human Genome Research … similar to other types of uterine cancer, namely serous endometrial cancers or endometrioid endometrial cancers. The …
Staff
Dr. Bell is a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute's Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch.
… She conducted her postdoctoral training at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, before joining Harvard Medical … alterations that cause clinically aggressive forms of endometrial cancer. Her laboratory has since identified … novel, high-frequency somatic mutations in PI3-kinase in endometrial tumors, thus uncovering previously unrecognized …
Genetic Disorders
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer.
… Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. Each year, approximately 200,000 women in the United …
Genetic Disorders
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States.
… Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. An estimated 40 to 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have skin cancer at least once. … Skin cancer is the most common type …
News Release
The TCGA network describes uterine and bile duct cancer.
… NHGRI Communications and Public Liaison Branch … The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a program co-funded by the National Cancer Institute and NHGRI, has greatly improved our … - outlining the molecular similarities between different cancer patients and cancer types, as well as documenting what …
News Release
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer.
… and Public Liaison Branch … Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified … potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer, including important genes and pathways that are … that, at the molecular level, some subtypes of bladder cancer - also known as urothelial carcinoma - resemble …
Educational Resources
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
… Cancer … Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth. … Cancer, Cell Division, Mutation, DNA Error, Metastasis, Tumor, Family Health History … Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer.
… Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer. … Did you know that we are increasingly able to … found in the body, but by how their genomes have changed? Cancer is caused by changes in your genome, but advances in … technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways for diagnosing and treating many types of …
News Release
Stomach cancers fall into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas Network have found.
… into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Network have found. In the study, … researchers think about developing treatments for stomach cancer, also called gastric cancers or gastric … Classification System Instead of considering gastric cancer as a single disease, as has been done in the past, …
Talking Glossary
El cáncer es una enfermedad en la que algunas células del cuerpo crecen fuera de control. Hay muchos tipos diferentes de cáncer, y cada uno comienza cuando una única célula adquiere un cambio genómico (o mutación) que le permite dividirse y multiplicarse sin control.
… que le permite dividirse y multiplicarse sin control. … Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably. There are many different types of cancer, and each begins when a single cell acquires a genomic … and multiply unchecked. Additional mutations can cause the cancer to spread to other sites. Such mutations can be caused …