Genetic Study Targets Cancer in Kids

GENETICS

Genetic Study Targets Cancer in Kids
St. Jude, Washington U. launch $65M effort to ID pediatric cancer genes

Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-genome26_st_N.htm

Two leading medical centers on Monday launched the largest effort to date to find all of the genetic mutations that cause childhood cancer.

Doctors at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say the three-year, $65 million project could help them develop new treatments for pediatric cancer, which strikes more 10,000 American children under age 14 every year.


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Debate Still Raging over Cell Phone, Tumor Link

CANCER

Debate still raging over cell phone, tumor link
Results of major study not likely to quell fears

By Scott LaFee

San Diego Union-Tribune

Source:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/03/debate-still-raging-over-cell-phone-tumor-link

The final results of an international study intended to produce definitive evidence on whether cell phones cause cancer could be released any day now.

But those findings likely will just deepen an already acrimonious debate that has lasted about 20 years.

Nine years ago, the World Health Organization launched Interphone to determine whether brain tumors can be linked to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. The researchers analyzed cell phone use by 14,000 people in 13 countries. Half of the participants had brain tumors; half did not.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/03/debate-still-raging-over-cell-phone-tumor-link


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