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Saving lives
New treatments improve outlook for pancreatic cancer patients
Oct. 21,
2009 -- A team of surgeons and oncologists at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital is aggressively tackling pancreatic cancer — one of the deadliest forms of cancer — and conducting clinical trials of innovative treatment regimens.
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Gene's link to cancer revealed
Genetic source of rare childhood cancer found; gene is implicated in other cancers
April 20,
2009 -- The search for the cause of an inherited form of a rare, aggressive childhood lung cancer has uncovered important information about how the cancer develops and potentially sheds light on the development of other cancers. The finding by researchers at the School of Medicine and other collaborating institutions adds the final link to the chain connecting the gene DICER1to cancer development.
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Decades of data: exercise cuts cancer risk
People who exercise lower their risk of colon cancer
Feb. 11,
2009 -- An ambitious new study has added considerable weight to the claim that exercise can lower the risk for colon cancer. Researchers at the School of Medicine and Harvard University combined and analyzed several decades worth of data from past studies on how exercise affects colon cancer risk. They found that people who exercised the most were 24 percent less likely to develop the disease than those who exercised the least.
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