A man’s perspective of breast cancer
ANDREW Drummond has watched and supported his wife through the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer on two occasions. At a McGrath Foundation and Grampians Integrated Cancer Service discussion evening tomorrow night for men whose partners have been affected by breast cancer, Mr Drummond will share what he has learnt.
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Skin cancer, although it seems small, can be quite deadly if it is not caught on time. As for how it develops, the cancer develops when DNA is damaged beyond repair. The cells that are damaged then grow and divide at a rate that is uncontrollable. When this damage occurs in the skin and the cells grow and divide uncontrollably, skin cancer is the result. The damaged cells will continue to multiply and that will cause a tumor.
The cancer usually develops in the epidermis, which is the outermost skin layer. That is why the skin cancer tumor is usually quite visible. This is why skin cancer is usually detectable in the early stages.
» Read more: What is Skin Cancer? What you need to know
Ze-Guang Han and colleagues, at the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, have now identified SCARA5 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a form of liver cancer that is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
The research is reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
» Read more: New Suppressor of Common Liver Cancer