Research Publications & Updates

With the assistance of the Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), No Stomach For Cancer will occasionally provide links to publications and relevant research on stomach cancer.

Research Updates

• Research seeks new weapons against cancer with a super-sensitive urine test and new drugs lethal only to cancer cells - July 2011

• Dr. Parry Guilford, Lead Researcher, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Read the NSFC press release

• New Zealand Government Research Fellowship: Focus on HDGC and diffuse gastric cancer – Nov 2009

• A prestigious James Cook Fellowship has been awarded to researcher Parry Guilford, University of Otazo, New Zealand, to pursue innovative research aimed at reversing or preventing the very early stages of stomach cancer. His two year fellowship began in March, 2010.
• Read the University of Otago announcement.
• Get more information on James Cook Research Fellowships.

• Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Update - June 2009

• Cancer Genetics Group in Portugal: Focus on the genetics of gastric, breast, and colorectal carcinoma – May 2009

• Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: NZ Research Update - May 2009

• Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: NZ Research Update – Oct 2008

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Publications

• Familial Gastric Cancers - September 2015

  Namrata Setia, Jeffrey W. Clark, Dan G. Duda, Theodore S. Hong, Eunice L. Kwak, John T. Mullen, Gregory Y. Lauwers. The Oncologist, Published Ahead of Print on September 30, 2015 as 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0205

• Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: updated clinical guidelines with an emphasis on germline CDH1 mutation carriers - May 2015

  Ingrid P Vogelaar, Rachel S van der Post, Fátima Carneiro, et al. J Med Genet Published Online First: May 16, 2015 doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103094

• Quantification of mutant E-cadherin using bioimaging analysis of in situ fluorescense microscopy. A new approach to CDH1 missense variations. – Nov 2014 (PDF)

  New Tool Improves Detection (Online)
  Raquel Seruca, MD, PHD, Group Leader of Cancer Genetics Group, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of Porto University (IPATIMUP) and Affiliated Professor, Medical Faculty of Porto University, Portugal

• The Psychosocial Implications of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC) - June 2014 (Online)

  The Psychosocial Implications of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC) - June 2014 (PDF)
  Marcina Beaston-Casey, Genetics Counseling Student, Brandeis University, Waltham MA

• Endoscopic Surveillance of Patients With Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer - Nov 2012 (PDF)

  Hiroshi Fujita MD PhD, Jochen K.M. Lennerz MD PhD, Daniel C. Chung MD, Devanshi Patel MS CGC, Vikram Deshpande MD, Sam S. Yoon MD, and Gregory Y. Lauwers MD.

• Pregnancy after prophylactic total gastrectomy - Jan 2010

  Pardeep Kaurah, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Sarah Dwerryhouse, David Huntsman.

• Prophylactic total gastrectomy for hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: surgical and pathological results - May 2009 (PDF)

  S.S. Yoon, D. Patel, D.C. Chung, G.Y. Lauwers, Department of Surgery, Center for Cancer Risk Analysis, Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA 02115 USA

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