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Individuals may find an increased risk of lung cancer due to the silencing or chemical modification, also known as hypermethylation, of a gene, according to a recent issue of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Science Daily news article reported that after smoking, a patient may develop "tobacco-mediated ...

After researchers discovered another colon cancer gene, the second so far, they concluded that they have found the causes of over 90 percent of the disease in its inherited form. Every year 156,000 people are diagnosed with colon cancer and six of those cases are caused by those two ...

There is clear evidence that the African American male is nearly twice as likely to develop prostate cancer compared to the white male. Indeed the highest rate of prostate cancer in the United States is found in African American men. Additionally, African American men are also most likely to ...