Photo: NCI COVID-19 and African Americans Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc1 Much has been published in leading medical journals about the phenomenon of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The resulting condition, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has had a societal effect comparable only to the Spanish flu
As shown here, lung cancer is associated with a vast stromal desmoplastic reaction (the "neighborhood") in which the connective tissue, associated with the tumor, thickens similarly to scars. Cancer is in red; cell nuclei in cyan; stroma/desmoplasia in green; and an active stroma-specific marker in purple. Photo courtesy of: NCI
Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality are higher among African American men and women than among men and women of other racial and ethnic groups. To explore the possibility that tumor genetics might contribute to this disparity, an NCI-supported team of researchers sequenced paired germline and tumor DNA from
