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Smoke's Genetic Impact Lingers
* Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. * Note that this gene expression study reveals different exp
Mar 25, 2013
MedPage Today
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Mar 25, 2013 17:13
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Scientists unravel genetic code of oesophageal cancer
Scientists said Sunday they had found mutations in 26 genes that may cause oesophageal cancer, a breakthrough they hope will lead to new drugs for the deadly and increasingly frequent disease.
Mar 24, 2013
AFP - Agence France Presse (fr)
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Mar 25, 2013 05:54
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[California] Grandmother's cigarette habit could be the cause of grandchild's asthma
Grandmother's cigarette smoking could be responsible for her grandchild's asthma, and the recent discovery of this multi-generational transmission of disease suggests the environmental factors experienced today could determine the health of family members
Mar 4, 2013
EurekAlert
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Mar 4, 2013 12:23
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[UK] Smoking fathers pass on damaged DNA to their children raising the risk of cancer
A study found that smoking harms the father's DNA, and these damaged genes can be inherited by his children. This raises the risk of youngsters developing childhood cancers, particularly leukaemia, warn researchers at the University of Bradford.
Mar 1, 2013
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
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Mar 1, 2013 11:59
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[Greece, UK] 'If dad-to-be smokes DNA damage may pass to kids'
The Mail’s story was based on a small study of predominantly Greek families, whose lifestyle and genetic make-up were analysed to detect whether parental smoking before and during pregnancy led to DNA damage in their newborn babies.
Mar 1, 2013
Daventry Express (uk)
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Mar 1, 2013 11:57
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Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Find Potential New Therapeutic Target for Treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found a potential targeted therapy for patients with tobacco-associated non-small cell lung cancer. It is based on the newly identified oncogene IKBKE, which helps regulate immune response. The study appeared in
Feb 14, 2013
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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Feb 26, 2013 11:08
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Breast Cancer Gene May Be Tied to Early Menopause
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found a harmful mutation in the BRCA gene may give women fewer childbearing years and may also increase their risk of infertility. And heavy smokers who carry the mutation may go through menopaus
Jan 29, 2013
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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Feb 16, 2013 20:50
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A smoking gun in lung cancer epigenetics
These results reveal a direct mechanism by which cigarette smoke-induced miRNA alterations promote lung carcinogenesis.
Feb 15, 2013
EurekAlert
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Feb 16, 2013 16:48
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Lung cancer patients can benefit from genetic testing
In the most common type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), clinical trials have shown that people whose tumours exhibit the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation often respond better to certain targeted therapies, which c
Feb 5, 2013
PR Newswire
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Feb 8, 2013 14:18
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[Massachusetts] BU Today Never Smoked. Lived Right. Died of Lung Cancer.
“I’m absolutely convinced she had a genetic predisposition” to lung cancer, says Spira, a School of Medicine professor and chief of computational biomedicine. That conviction set him on a quest for the genetic key to a medical mystery: why some people wh
Jan 22, 2013
BU Bridge
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Jan 23, 2013 05:17