April 1 (Reuters) – Advanced genetic testing could help erase a huge disparity in breast cancer survival rates between white and black patients, new research has found. Currently, black women in the US have a 40% higher death rate from breast cancer than white women, despite the low rate of 5% of the disease. Register … Read more
(This is part of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present the latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Written by Nancy Lapid April 1 (Reuters) – Advanced genetic testing could help erase a huge disparity in breast cancer survival rates between white and black patients, new research has found. Currently, Black women in the … Read more
picture: To address this challenge, the team identified low-intratumor heterogeneity/high-intertumor variability (LIHV) genes. This signature of 1,341 genes targets markers that remain consistent within a human tumor but vary greatly between patients. By filtering out the discrepant “noise”, the LIHV design enables a robust and reproducible classification of iCCA into five molecular subtypes, each associated … Read more