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Thread: Mapping Cancer Markers project update, April 2016 |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Mapping Cancer Markers, which had been concentrating on lung cancer, now includes ovarian cancer work units. The research team has designed a study to identify the genes that are important in differentiating between the late and early stages of the disease.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Giving me a chance to fight ovarian cancer this way, by donating my computer power...it's very emotional, 'cause I lost a Grandma to ovarian cancer...& she practically raised me!
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I just put your article about research on ovarian cancer on my blog.
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2160 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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ErikaT:
Mapping Cancer Markers, which had been concentrating on lung cancer, now includes ovarian cancer work units. The research team has designed a study to identify the genes that are important in differentiating between the late and early stages of the disease. This also sounds as good news to me and my girl-friend, for she got 'acquainted' with ovarian disease more than a decade ago. She survived, thanks to the surgeons who removed a fist-thick tumour. She's also participating here at WCG, letting her computer 'do the BOINC' (as if it's a dance).Adri |
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[CSF] Thomas H.V. DUPONT
Master Cruncher Réunion-France Joined: Aug 25, 2013 Post Count: 1512 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for the heads-up my dear Erika!
----------------------------------------And thanks to the MCM crew of scientists for this update! For the french community >> WCG - Le cancer de l'ovaire dans l’œil de MCM |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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So great hearing the stories of why you volunteer with World Community Grid - keep 'em coming!
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Former Member
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i'm happy to help here, and I can understand how markers could help early detection and identify high-risk people.
the last stated goal "predicting treatment response", how would that be done? |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
There's an ethical issue with all this... if only health insurance companies could get their hands on that 'predictive' information. Suddenly you could find you/family member being the cause of not being able to insure or find balloon premiums. One reason for collective insurance and collective bargaining, something that Obamacare may have already catered for... no cherry picking covering by the insurers. (Maybe worth a separate thread discussion as views on this between US stateside and other 'old continent' widely differ.)
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[VENETO] boboviz
Senior Cruncher Joined: Aug 17, 2008 Post Count: 183 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Great news!!!
Here ("We estimate that the number of "experiments" we can perform within a single work unit will be much less, as each experiment will take longer to solve") a gpu client will be welcome!! :-P |
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GGPA [E.R.]
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Great news!!! Here ("We estimate that the number of "experiments" we can perform within a single work unit will be much less, as each experiment will take longer to solve") a gpu client will be welcome!! :-P +1 |
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