Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Stanford have developed a tool to trace the origins of certain cancers.  More on this study can be found in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• A new tool designed at Purdue helps guide brain cancer surgery. Additional details provided in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• A National Cancer Institute study finds that being extremely obese may cut your life expectancy by up to 14 years.  Research findings have been published in the latest issue of PLOS.
• According to researchers at Harvard, having a vasectomy may increase your chances of developing prostate cancer.  The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
• Scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a protein that makes breast cancer cells more likely to metastasize.  The findings have been published in ScienceDaily.
• Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle have noted a dramatic rise in the rate of testicular cancer among young Hispanic American Men.

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