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Study identifies 8 genetic patterns behind most prostate cancers

An international team of researchers has identified eight distinct genetic "footprints" that account for roughly 85 percent of all prostate cancer cases, offering a new way to distinguish between harmless tumors and those likely to become life-threatening. The study, published…

Study finds inherited genes steer how DNA damage becomes cancer

A sweeping international study published in Nature on July 22 has provided the first direct evidence that a person's inherited genetic makeup can determine how DNA damage from environmental exposures leads to cancer — and how that cancer evolves over…