New Case-Control Study of Lung Cancer Diagnoses presented at AACR
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A new study shows that lung cancer can be genetic. According to this new case-control study, family members of someone that has developed lung cancer without smoking have an increased risk of developing lung cancer. Olga Gorlova, PhD has concluded that lung cancer can be genetic. Dr. Gorlova presented this research at this years American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Dr. Gorlova and team are still performing the study which they have found that relatives have a 25% increased risk compared to the control group. Additional findings show that children had an increase in risk of two-fold. Mothers had a increase in breast cancer risk of 2.2-fold. Other family members had a substantially increased risk in testicular cancer and are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with cancer before 50 years old. This was very evident and actually increased with the study of lung cancer cases.
This is still an ongoing study. There are still substantial differences seen in the time and risks that other family members could be diagnosed. "There should be some genetic component. We are looking more carefully into the polymorphisms in pathways that are likely to be involved in cancer to determine exactly what it is.", Dr. Gorlova said.
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