Surfing the web, I uncovered these news items worth sharing

• As part of a clinical trial, doctors at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences successfully injected a cold virus into a woman’s brain tumor in an effort to eradicate it, making her the first person in the United States to participate in a clinical trial using this method, which incorporates immunotherapy.
• A recent post on the NIH Director’s Blog, shared details of new research published on epigenetic patterns in glioblastoma with emphasis on a paper published by researchers at Dartmouth. The findings were first reported in Nature Communications.
• Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified specific genomic changes that are significant to the development of testicular cancer. Read more on their findings in Nature.
• A recent study published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences on adenoma prevalence in two Latino subgroups, specifically Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, revealed the prevalence of adenomas, advanced adenomas, and proximal neoplasia was high among both subgroups. These findings have implications for CRC screening and surveillance among the increasingly growing Latino population in the USA.