Clinical Roundup

Clinical Roundup

Estrogen-blocking drugs could offer mortality benefit for women with elevated breast cancer risk

While it has long been recognized that drugs that block the cancer-promoting activity of estrogen reduce risk of developing new breast cancers, a new computer modeling study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues showed that these treatments could also reduce the risk of dying from the disease in women who are at high risk.
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AI-enabled study shows mechanics of aging and disease progression

Researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Gero and Genome Protection Inc., recently published new work in Nature Communications in which the artificial neural network applied by the research team precisely projected the health condition of an aging mouse with the help of a single variable, which was termed dynamic frailty indicator (dFI) that accurately characterizes the damage that an animal accumulates throughout life.