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Live on July 10: White House Cancer Cabinet Conversation
At 2:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 10, tune into our live conversation on NCI programs and initiatives working to address barriers to cancer research participation in rural communities.
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Helping Underserved and Minority Cancer Survivors Be More Active
A Texas program increased survivors’ physical activity and improved their quality of life.
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What Global Patterns in DNA Mutations Reveal About Kidney Cancer
Identifying mutational signatures might lead to strategies for preventing kidney cancer.
Latest Press Releases
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For healthy adults, taking multivitamins daily is not associated with a lower risk of death
A large analysis of data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults followed for more than 20 years has found no association between regular multivitamin use and lower risk of death.
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Combination targeted treatment produces lasting remissions in people with resistant aggressive B-cell lymphoma
More than half of clinical trial participants treated with venetoclax, ibrutinib, prednisone, obinutuzumab, and lenalidomide (ViPOR) had substantial tumor shrinkage. Of those, 38% had tumors that disappeared completely.
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Inherited genetic factors may predict the pattern of X chromosome loss in older women
An NCI study explores the causes and effects of a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X, or mLOX, which may lead to several health conditions, including cancer.
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NIH scientists develop AI tool to predict how cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy
AI tool developed by NCI researchers uses routine clinical data, such as that from a simple blood test, to predict whether someone’s cancer will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy.
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Analysis identifies 50 new genomic regions associated with kidney cancer risk
An international team of researchers has identified 50 new areas across the genome that are associated with the risk of developing kidney cancer. The analysis identified genetic variants associated with the risk of developing papillary renal cell carcinoma and clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
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