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Benefit of chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer varies by tumor anatomy, Roswell Park study shows

A large retrospective study conducted by physician researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows benefits of chemotherapy for many patients with early-stage breast cancer with rare variant histology, or tumor anatomy. These findings were presented by first author Arya Mariam Roy during the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.
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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.