Hacker News with Generative AI: Cancer

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

15 points by divbzero 3 hours ago | 0 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

23 points by gnabgib 1 day 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 3 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 8 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 13 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 14 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 15 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 19 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 22 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 27 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 30 days ago | 6 comments

Origami Nanobot Drug Delivery To Kill Cancer Cells (phys.org)

Nanotechnology, Medicine, Cancer, Drug Delivery

11 points by I_Nidhi 31 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 33 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 33 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 37 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 50 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 60 days ago | 1 comments

When Did I Start Getting Cancer? (nautil.us)
An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia

Cancer, Health, Science, Environment

16 points by Brajeshwar 62 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading (bbc.com)
Scientists believe they have discovered how the cheap painkiller aspirin can stop cancers spreading.

Cancer, Medicine, Science, Healthcare

171 points by SirLJ 64 days ago | 100 comments

Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting TXA2 suppression of T cell 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.

Cancer, Medicine, Science, Immunity

13 points by gnabgib 65 days ago | 1 comments

Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers (biomedcentral.com)
We aim to study the potential association between tattoo ink exposure and development of certain types of cancers in the recently established Danish Twin Tattoo Cohort.

Health, Science, Cancer, Tattooing

82 points by achristmascarl 66 days ago | 53 comments

A protein from tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy (news.mit.edu)
Drawing inspiration from a tiny organism that can withstand huge amounts of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have developed a new strategy that may protect patients from this kind of damage.

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, Science, Biology

5 points by rbanffy 66 days ago | 1 comments

When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it (nytimes.com)
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

Cancer, Medicine, Education, Stanford University

89 points by danso 72 days ago | 20 comments

Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk (pressreader.com)

Health, Cancer, Water Treatment, Public Health, Europe

14 points by oliverchan2024 79 days ago | 1 comments

Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk (theguardian.com)
Chlorinating drinking water at levels common in the United States and European Union probably increases the risk of several cancers, a new analysis of recent research from across the globe finds.

Health, Cancer, Water Treatment, Public Health, Environmental Science

3 points by kawera 80 days ago | 1 comments

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads (nature.com)
Researchers have developed a simple blood test to detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other sites in the body.

Cancer, Medical Research, Healthcare, Diagnosis

395 points by rbanffy 85 days ago | 236 comments