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• Robert Hoover reflects on years of research on DES exposure and adverse outcomes among DES daughters in an NCI Cancer Bulletin video and article.

Provocative Questions Initiative

• Learn about NCI's Provocative Questions Initiative, which seeks to identify perplexing problems to drive progress against cancer.

In This Issue of Linkage - March 2012

DCEG Highlights, News, & Events

• Scientists find that chromosomal abnormalities are associated with aging and cancer. Find out more in the NCI Press Release
• U.S. population data show no increase in brain cancer rates during period of expanding cell phone use. Find out more in the NCI News Note
• Heavy exposure to diesel exhaust linked to lung cancer death in miners. Find out more in the Press Release, Q & A and the Cancer Bulletin
• Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations survive ovarian cancer at higher rates than those without mutations. Find out more in the NCI News Note and the Cancer Bulletin
• People with a form of muscular dystrophy may have elevated cancer risk. NIH study shows increased risk for two types of myotonic muscular dystrophy. Find out more in the NCI press release and the Cancer Bulletin
• NIH study finds broad spectrum of cancer risk for organ transplant recipients in US. Find out more in the NCI press release and the Cancer Bulletin