Hacker News with Generative AI: Cancer

Interactive Cancer Risk Matrix (wcrf.org)
Discover how diet, nutrition and physical activity affect cancer risk. In the interactive matrix below, roll over or touch a bubble to find out more details.
Cancer, Health, Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity
49 points by instagraham 32 days ago | 6 comments
New Study Confirms That Cancer Cells Ferment Glutamine [video] (youtube.com)
Cancer, Biology, Science, Medicine, Research
8 points by teleforce 34 days ago | 0 comments
Elephants evolved to beat cancer, and how we could too (newatlas.com)
Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically experience unusually low rates of cancer.
Cancer, Evolution, Biology, Animals, Health
17 points by Brajeshwar 37 days ago | 6 comments
Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden (thewrap.com)
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams said on Monday morning that he expects to die soon from prostate cancer, the same disease former President Joe Biden announced he is battling.
Health, Celebrities, Cancer
452 points by dale_huevo 39 days ago | 610 comments
Biden Is Diagnosed with an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer (nytimes.com)
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday.
Politics, Health, Cancer
13 points by jmdelatorre 40 days ago | 1 comments
Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer (thenightly.com.au)
A common energy drink ingredient could be leading blood cancer cells to grow and multiply, according to a new study by researchers in New York.
Health, Cancer, Science, Energy Drinks
38 points by _xerces_ 41 days ago | 30 comments
Energy Drinks Linked to Rise in Colorectal Cancer (msn.com)
Researchers may be one step closer to unravelling the cause of a colon cancer crisis in relatively young people.
Health, Cancer, Science, Research
4 points by _xerces_ 41 days ago | 3 comments
NHS rolls out 5-minute 'super-jab' for 15 cancers (england.nhs.uk)
Thousands of patients will benefit from a new cancer jab for more than a dozen types of the disease, with the NHS the first in Europe to offer the new injection.
Health, Cancer, UK, Technology, Healthcare
10 points by dsego 41 days ago | 0 comments
Gas stoves nearly double children's cancer risk, Stanford study shows (sfchronicle.com)
A Stanford study found that gas stoves emit benzene, nearly doubling the cancer risk in children compared with adults — especially in homes with poor ventilation.
Health, Science, Children, Gas Stoves, Cancer
16 points by divbzero 50 days ago | 1 comments
The Price of Remission (propublica.org)
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Drug Pricing, Cancer
89 points by danso 50 days ago | 93 comments
Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers (nature.com)
Momentum is building for PROTAC treatments that eliminate disease-causing proteins, including those responsible for difficult-to-treat childhood cancers.
Cancer, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Treatment
27 points by gnabgib 51 days ago | 0 comments
CT Scans Could Be Triggering an Alarming Number of Cancer Cases (jamanetwork.com)
Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States, and ionizing radiation from CT is a known carcinogen.
Medical Imaging, Cancer, Health Risks
9 points by CGMthrowaway 53 days ago | 1 comments
Study links PFAS contamination of drinking water to a range of rare cancers (keck.usc.edu)
Communities exposed to drinking water contaminated with manufactured chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) experience up to a 33% higher incidence of certain cancers, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Health, Science, Water Contamination, Cancer
10 points by geox 57 days ago | 0 comments
AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here's the Reality (theatlantic.com)
To hear Silicon Valley tell it, the end of disease is well on its way. Not because of oncology research or some solution to America’s ongoing doctor shortage, but because of (what else?) advances in generative AI.
Generative AI, Cancer, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence
14 points by pmags 62 days ago | 1 comments
Blocking a master regulator of immunity eradicates liver tumors in mice (med.stanford.edu)
A protein identified nearly 40 years ago for its ability to stimulate the production of red blood cells plays a surprising, critical role in dampening the immune system’s response to cancer.
Cancer, Medicine, Immunology, Mice, Research
10 points by geox 64 days ago | 0 comments
E. Coli linked directly to rising bowel cancer in people under 50 (theguardian.com)
Childhood exposure to a toxin produced by bacteria in the bowel may be contributing to the rise of colorectal cancer in under-50s around the world, researchers say.
Health, Science, Cancer, Bacteria
9 points by I_Nidhi 65 days ago | 0 comments
Popular CT Scans Could Account for 5% of All Cancer Cases a Year (ucsf.edu)
Computed tomography (CT) scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.
Cancer, Health, Medical Technology, Medical Research
26 points by hsuduebc2 69 days ago | 9 comments
New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone (medicalxpress.com)
A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators.
Cancer, Healthcare, Medical Research, Blood Tests
7 points by wglb 71 days ago | 1 comments
CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty (arstechnica.com)
Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer.
Medical Imaging, Cancer, Health, Science
130 points by pseudolus 73 days ago | 153 comments
Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US (icr.ac.uk)
The overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the US – with almost 10,000 cases in children, researchers have warned.
Health, Cancer, Medical Imaging, Research
36 points by ivewonyoung 74 days ago | 18 comments
CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer.
Medical Imaging, Cancer, Health Risks, Radiation
13 points by jnord 74 days ago | 1 comments
Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year (medicalxpress.com)
Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.
Medical Research, Cancer, CT Scans, Healthcare
9 points by XzetaU8 74 days ago | 0 comments
AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital (bbc.com)
An NHS hospital in west London is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help check for skin cancer.
Artificial Intelligence, Health, Medicine, Cancer, London
103 points by chris_overseas 77 days ago | 88 comments
Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It's Transformed by the Liver (genengnews.com)
Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It’s Transformed by the Liver
Cancer, Fructose, Metabolism, Liver, Health
24 points by fbn79 80 days ago | 6 comments
Origami Nanobot Drug Delivery To Kill Cancer Cells (phys.org)
Nanotechnology, Medicine, Cancer, Drug Delivery
11 points by I_Nidhi 81 days ago | 0 comments
Cell Death as a Driving Force in Glioblastoma (feinberg.northwestern.edu)
Cell death has been found to be a driving factor in glioblastoma progression, according to a Northwestern-Medicine-led study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cancer, Neuroscience, Biology, Medicine
23 points by gmays 82 days ago | 3 comments
Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have brain tumors (nbcnews.com)
A Boston-area hospital is investigating after five nurses who have worked on the same floor have developed brain tumors.
Health, Medicine, Boston, Cancer, Investigation
70 points by bratao 83 days ago | 47 comments
I can smell when people have cancer (reddit.com)
Believe it or not, I can smell when someone has cancer.
Cancer, Health, Science, Human Senses
18 points by nixass 87 days ago | 9 comments
AI diagnoses major cancer with near perfect accuracy (cdu.edu.au)
One of Australia's most common gynaecological cancers could be detected sooner and more accurately thanks to a specialised Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, new research shows.
AI, Cancer, Medical Technology, Research
14 points by geox 99 days ago | 4 comments
Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA2 suppression of immunity (nature.com)
Metastasis is the spread of cancer cells from primary tumours to distant organs and is the cause of 90% of cancer deaths globally1,2.
Medicine, Cancer, Science, Research
38 points by hsuduebc2 110 days ago | 1 comments