So, the website of the National Cancer Institute says that cancer is a genetic disease.

Cancer is a genetic disease, but studies found that only a small number of cancers are genetic.

Scientists around the world were intrigued by this cancer, this infectious cancer, that was spreading through the Tasmanian devil population.

We're treating cancer almost like it's an infectious disease.

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And just as the Tasmanian devil cancer is contagious through the spread of living cancer cells, so is this dog cancer.

So, the states, are equivalent classes of history, and the cancer patient, the input, is the environment, the diet, the treatment, the genetic mutations.

Everyone's familiar with cancer, but we don't normally think of cancer as being a contagious disease.

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The finding forms the basis of genetics and has opened up promising new research areas, such as synthetic biology, in which biological systems are created or modified to perform specific functions. Likewise, it has facilitated important innovations, such as pharmacogenetic cancer treatment, in which drugs target specific genetic defects within cancer cells.

Epidemiological studies of cancer caused by radiation, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair and mutagenesis and the hereditary effects of radiation also had been examined.

There was a manic depressive in her family, on her mother's side.

Now in medical science, we don't want to know how necessarily just how cancer works, we want to know how your cancer is different from my cancer.

Barbara Bradfield, one of the original subjects in research trials for the pharmacogenetic cancer drug Herceptin, has now been stable on the drug for more than 20 years. But such success stories are far too rare to constitute a golden age of genetics.

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So this Tasmanian devil cancer is perhaps the ultimate cancer.

it's probably extremely rare for cancers to be transferred between people.

In addition, registries on cancer and hereditary anaemia were established in all fields to monitor incidence and prevalence trends.

Suddenly, my cancer was a cancer that was everywhere, the cancer of cruelty, the cancer of greed, the cancer that gets inside people who live down the streets from chemical plants and they're usually poor the cancer inside the coal miner's lungs, the cancer of stress for not achieving enough, the cancer of buried trauma, the cancer in caged chickens and polluted fish, the cancer in women's uteruses from being raped, the cancer that is everywhere from our carelessness.

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All the evidence suggested that this devil cancer was spread by a virus.

I guess my cancer different from your cancer.

You change that system, and you could have a marked effect on the cancer.

Scientists haven't found a cure for cancer yet.

Between 1962 and 1985, cancer related deaths in the United States rose by 8.7 , despite the use of aggressive chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy, highlighting the dangers of a one size fits all approach to treatment. An understanding of the genetic determinants of patients therapeutic response, it was believed, would enable doctors to develop individualized treatment programs, sparing more responsive patients from harmful overtreatment.

Now this is a very rare cancer, this BRD4 addicted cancer.

Counsel concedes that it is too early to gauge the extent of the contamination of the ecosystem, the marine environment and the food chain by radiation, as cancers may take 10 to 30 years to develop and manifest themselves the same is true for genetic malformations.

And the reason for that is the emergence of a new disease, a contagious cancer.

But, while it is true that cancer is pervasive in wealthy countries, people in the world s poorest countries lose more years of life to the disease. As medical advances and technological developments have helped cancer patients in high income countries to live longer to the extent that some forms of cancer have effectively become chronic conditions those in low income countries continue to die young.

We can tell who's going to get breast cancer from the various genes.

We've learned at Stanford and other places that we can discover cancer stem cells, the ones that seem to be really responsible for disease relapse.

Yesterday, the National Cancer Institute announced a new program called the Physical Sciences and Oncology, where physicists, mathematicians, are brought in to think about cancer, people who never approached it before.

Then I got cancer or I found out I had cancer.

Please provide this information, including information on maternal mortality rates, incidence of sexually transmissible diseases and cancers affecting women and rate of screening of such cancers.

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(b) Genetic medicine

As for cancer, since 1970, lung cancer causes more deaths in the United States than any other type of cancer.

And they use low intensity electric fields to fight cancer.

The goal of me as a cancer doctor is not to understand cancer.

The first cancer was done, which was brain cancer.

Now I'm going to focus on cancer because angiogenesis is a hallmark of cancer, every type of cancer.

IARC (1987) IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans overall evaluations of carcinogenicity updating of IARC monographs volumes 1 to 42 (supplement 7), International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon.

I have cancer.

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