2014 - News Updates
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Amy Berrington de González Appointed Chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch
Amy Berrington de González Appointed Chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch
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Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson Awarded NIH Scientific Tenure
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson Awarded NIH Scientific Tenure
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Multiple biopsies are superior to a single biopsy in detecting cervical cancer precursors
Performing multiple biopsies during colposcopy is more effective than performing only a single biopsy of the worst-appearing area for detecting cervical cancer precursors.
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Scientific Highlights July-October 2014
Scientific papers published by DCEG investigators in July-October 2014
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Neal Freedman Appointed Principal Investigator of PLCO Cohort Study
Neal Freedman Appointed Principal Investigator of PLCO Cohort Study
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REB Investigators Participate in Conference on Radiation and Health
REB Investigators Participate in Conference on Radiation and Health
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DCEG Scientists Contribute to the 2014 NIH Research Festival
DCEG Scientists Contribute to the 2014 NIH Research Festival
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DCEG Hosts Workshop on Microbiome Quality Control
DCEG Hosts Workshop on Microbiome Quality Control
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DCEG Hosts Visiting Scholar David Hunter
DCEG Hosts Visiting Scholar David Hunter
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Further Evidence on Effectiveness of H. pylori Treatment in Reducing Gastric Cancer Incidence and Mortality: Update from the Shandong Intervention Trial
Update from the Shandong Intervention Trial: Further Evidence on Effectiveness of H. pylori Treatment in Reducing Gastric Cancer Incidence and Mortality
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2014 DCEG Intramural Research Awards
2014 Intramural Research Award Winners
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Genetic Marker Identified for Aggressive Bladder Cancer
New DCEG study identifies genetic marker for aggressive bladder cancer
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Joseph Fraumeni Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Duke Medical Alumni Association
Joseph Fraumeni Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Duke Medical Alumni Association
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Xiaohong Rose Yang Awarded NIH Scientific Tenure
Xiaohong Rose Yang Awarded NIH Scientific Tenure - background and accomplishments
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Scientific Workshop on Use of Immune Marker Panels to Uncover the Role of Inflammation in Cancer
Immune Marker Panels Uncover the Role of Inflammation in Cancer - Scientific Workshop, Anil Chaturvedi, Allan Hildesheim and Meredith Shiels coordinating committee
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Gadalla and Trabert Selected as 2014 NIH Earl Stadtman Investigators
Gadalla and Trabert Selected as 2014 NIH Earl Stadtman Investigators
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Winners Announced for the Inaugural DCEG Informatics Tool Challenge
Inaugural DCEG Informatics Tool Challenge winners announced: Cancer Mortality Maps, Online risk assessment tool for lung cancer screening, tool to calculate organ doses for patients undergoing radiographic fluoroscopic examination, LDLink, CrossTalk, a statistical tool for Poisson regression analysis of data from case-control studies.
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New genetic risk variants identified in multiethnic analysis of prostate cancer
New genetic risk variants identified in multiethnic analysis of prostate cancer
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NCI study examines outcomes from surgery to prevent ovarian cancer
Small proportion of women at high risk of ovarian cancer, but with no signs of disease, who underwent risk-reducing surgery found to have cancer in the removed tissues.
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Risk factors identified for certain lymphoma subtypes
In a large international collaborative analysis of risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), scientists were able to quantify risk associated with medical history, lifestyle factors, family history of blood or lymph-borne cancers, and occupation for 11 different NHL subtypes, including less common subtypes.