With personalized wellness becoming more readily available, I found my curiosity growing about the emerging sector. I sat down with Evangeline Gonzalez, President of Viazoi, to ask some questions about personalized wellness and lifestyle tests and learn why someone might want to do one. Read the full article
Fear of breast cancer is widespread, yet many women don’t realize that adopting protective living habits may help keep it at bay. The habits described below may also help to ward off other life-threatening ills, like heart disease and diabetes.
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Cancer, also called malignancy, is an abnormal growth of cells. There are more than 100 types of cancer, including breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Symptoms vary depending on the type.Cancer treatment may include chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery.
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Hear insights from Jordi Rodón, MD, PhD, Clinical Oncologist and Director of the Research Unit for Molecular Therapy of Cancer at Vall d´Hebron in Barcelona, on the use of next-generation sequencing to empower the future of precision medicine in oncology drug development.
Illumina invites leading European scientists to present their latest research and perspectives on Genomics in Oncology.
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Cancer is a genetic disease—that is, cancer is caused by certain changes to genes that control the way our cells function, especially how they grow and divide. These changes include mutations in the DNA that makes up our genes.
Genetic changes that increase cancer risk can be inherited from our parents if the changes are present in germ cells, which are the reproductive cells of the body (eggs and sperm). Such changes, called germline changes, are found in every cell of the offspring.
Cancer-causing genetic changes can also be acquired during one’s lifetime, as the result of errors that occur as cells divide during a person’s lifetime or exposure to substances, such as certain chemicals in tobacco smoke, and radiation, such as ultraviolet rays from the sun, that damage DNA.
Genetic changes that occur after conception are called somatic (or acquired) changes. They can arise at any time during a person’s life. The number of cells in the body that carry such changes depends on when the changes occur during a person’s lifetime.
In general, cancer cells have more genetic changes than normal cells. But each person’s cancer has a unique combination of genetic alterations. Some of these changes may be the result of cancer, rather than the cause. As the cancer continues to grow, additional changes will occur. Even within the same tumor, cancer cells may have different genetic changes.
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