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In a recent study of more than a thousand individuals, greater adiposity, or excessive body fat or fatty tissue, specifically in the abdomen, was associated with lung cancer. These findings and complementary laboratory studies published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology suggest obesity may create an immunosuppressive environment in the lungs that allows emerging cancer cells to escape immune surveillance. JTO is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

Universal germline genetic testing of nearly 40,000 patients with solid tumours detected a substantial proportion of inherited gene variants that would have been missed by the standard germline testing approach that excludes those over age 50. This study was published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Zsofia K. Stadler, MD, and Luis A. Diaz, Jr., MD, FAACR are the two co-corresponding authors.

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (Alliance) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the immunotherapy drug atezolizumab (Tecentriq®) in combination with fluoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin chemotherapy, for the adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III colon cancer with deficient deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mismatch repair (dMMR).

A new study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, published by Elsevier, has found that automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) and handheld ultrasound (HHUS) had similar cancer detection rates in women with dense breasts, while ABUS had a lower false-positive rate. It demonstrates that ABUS is a viable alternative to HHUS and can expand supplemental ultrasound screening capacity at radiology clinics.

According to international studies, taking Acetylsalicylic acid daily can protect people with Lynch syndrome from developing colorectal cancer – even at low doses. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Centre for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Bonn, in collaboration with the self-help organisation SemiColon, have now found that these scientific findings have so far been insufficiently incorporated into clinical practice.

Researchers identify aggressive molecular features in low-risk prostate cancer - ecancer

Introduction: Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma, representing 30%–40% of childhood non-Hodgkin lymphomas globally. In Peru, Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is highly prevalent in lymphomas, yet its role in paediatric BL remains underexplored.

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