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Cornell Researchers Have Discovered a New Extremely Frequent Subtype of Prostate Cancer

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A novel and very common form of prostate cancer A new study by experts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill Cornell Medicine reveals that around 30 percent of hormone-resistant prostate cancer patients include a previously undiscovered subtype. Recent publication of the paper in the journal Science. This finding may allow individuals with this kind of prostate cancer to get tailored treatments. Source Before this current study, which was headed by Yu Chen, only two kinds of prostate cancer had been identified: androgen-dependent and neuroendocrine. Dr. Chen is an MSK physician-scientist, an associate professor at Cornell, and a member of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program. Dr. Chen's team has dubbed the newly detected third subtype of prostate cancer stem cell-like because several of the genes that are activated in the cells are comparable to those in stem cells (SCL). Dr. Chen and his colleagues examined forty unique prostate cancer models taken from ...

Wisconsin's 1st monkeypox case identified, DHS says | Healthidiya

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Wisconsin's 1st monkeypox case identified, DHS says Wis.'s DANE COUNTY - The state Department of Health Services said on Thursday, June 30 that an individual living in Dane County has been diagnosed with Wisconsin's first case of orthopoxvirus, which is thought to be monkeypox. Despite the likelihood that more cases will be discovered in Wisconsin, Dr. Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer of DHS and state epidemiologist, remarked, "We are happy that this disease does not travel quickly from person to person." We want the general public to be aware that there is still a low chance of widespread transmission. Source State health officials want to convey the information as cases of the unusual monkeypox appear in more and more locations. "What we're witnessing now is transmission," Westergaard added, "assisted by international travel among other things." It doesn't create a serious illness and isn't very contagious, but it's imp...