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Predicting colorectal cancer risk
Colorectal cancer is a major public health burden. Understanding the transition from benign polyps to malignant carcinomas can help to improve colorectal cancer screenings. Researchers from Niko Beerenwinkel’s group combined large-scale epidemiological datasets and applied new mathematical and computational modelling to estimate cancer development. The new method also provides a tool for predicting the risk of the presence of cancer cells for each screened patient.
by Simon Dirmeier