Article: Cancer gene may be relatively common. (p53)
Science News;  May 16, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... a defective p53 gene. Friend's team ... fraction of these cancers. Alfred G. Knudson of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia ... families show more [cancers due to] the gene than others ... other, modifier genes involved," he ...

Article: Brea$t Cancer Gene
Canadian Women's Health Network;  September 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... so-called "breast cancer gene" BRCA-1 in healthy ... tests to find "breast cancer genes" cannot prevent cancer or reliably predict ... percentage of breast cancers where there is a clear ... the "breast cancer gene"? There are no proven ...

Article: Skin cancer gene defect found
Charleston Gazette;  June 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... genome, gene by gene, to see ... abnormal genes that drive ... behave as cancers," said ... leader of the Cancer Genome Project ... six common cancers. They take ... 30,000 genes of the human ... of human cancer, to see ... role the gene mutation ...

Article: New cancer gene discovered.
NewsRx Health;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... normal MYB gene into a cancer gene. Genes can be compared to blueprints ... is microRNA, which can turn genes on and off. When this cancer gene forms, this important control ... common in a variety of human cancers," says Stenman. Keywords ...

Article: National cancer gene therapy foundation announces ...
Cancer Weekly;  March 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... relate to separate cancer gene therapy research ... and ovarian cancers. The recipients ... of therapeutic genes into certain ovarian cancer tumor cells ... this method of gene therapy is known ... of therapeutic genes in the laboratory ...

Article: Focus Is on Cancer, Gene Link // Science Stands at ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 7, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... insights into how cancers arise. Two ... discoveries are genes for a rare eye cancer called retinoblastoma ... retinoblastoma gene is now known ... of the p53 gene - an important ... suppressor gene involved in cancers of the colon ... understand cancer genes, it's ...

Article: Cancer Gene MYC Emerging as Key Research Target: ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... MYC's function in cancer. The promise of ... wide range of common cancer types, including ... ovarian and prostate cancers, and melanoma ... 15 percent of all genes. Scientists had ... binds to a target gene, it turns that gene ... for Nature Reviews Cancer published online ...