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Mashup Score: 2Clinical Director’s Corner - 4 day(s) ago
Sharon Savage, DCEG Clinical Director, describes the new, modern infrastructure for Family Studies conducted by the Clinical Genetics Branch. CHARMS is an interactive patient- and provider-facing platform for recruitment and management of participants in CGB studies.
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Mashup Score: 42Enduring Guidelines Effort Adds Dual Stain - 25 day(s) ago
Continual improvement of cervical cancer screening and management to include new technologies and approaches requires a flexible approach to guidelines. A description of the Enduring Guidelines effort—methods and principles to ensure swift adoption of changes—and a review and decision on the first new technology to be added to the guidelines—dual stain cytology—were published in the Journal of the Lower Genital Tract Diseases.
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Mashup Score: 112NCI Data Science Training Resource Launches - 1 month(s) ago
NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) launched a new data science training resource to help early career cancer researchers and trainees to gain basic skills in navigating the world of cancer data science.
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Mashup Score: 8Benefits of Reduced Smoking on Lung Cancer - 1 month(s) ago
Reductions in cigarettes per day and the amount of time smoked were both associated with lower risk of lung cancer among men in the prospective cohort study, Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study. Serial questionnaires collected every four months allowed for precision of estimates.
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Mashup Score: 5Career Paths of our Alumni: Q&A with Former Fellows - 2 month(s) ago
Career Paths of our Alumni: Interviews with former DCEG fellows about their time in DCEG and their current work.
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Mashup Score: 27
DCEG researchers are testing one-dose HPV vaccination and creating new cervical cancer screening approaches that are effective and efficient. For high resource settings, the investigators are designing a quick and cost-effective HPV genotyping assay to improve the detection and management of cervical cancer.
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Mashup Score: 23Disparities in HPV and HPV Vaccine Awareness - 3 month(s) ago
Ms. Erica Stephens and Dr. Jaimie Shing used data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults to ascertain awareness of HPV and the HPV vaccine, as well as knowledge that HPV can cause cancers, by educational attainment, race, and ethnicity. They found profound disparities that signal the importance of continued education around HPV and the HPV vaccine.
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Mashup Score: 3Blanche Alter Receives American Society of Hematology Award - 4 month(s) ago
Blanche Alter received the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology from the American Society of Hematology in 2023.
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Mashup Score: 5Lung Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline - 4 month(s) ago
Smoking-attributable and smoking-unrelated lung cancer death rates declined from 1991 to 2018 in the U.S., according to a new study from Dr. Meredith Shiels and colleagues.
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Mashup Score: 15Black Women Have Highest Mortality Rate of Cervical Cancer Subtype - 4 month(s) ago
Despite having the lowest incidence of cervical cancer subtype, cervical adenocarcinoma, Black women also experience the highest mortality rate of this cervical cancer subtype.
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