Summary of the June 23, 2009 issue of JNCI

The June 23 issue of the JNCI includes a study on a new candidate tumor suppressor gene and biomarker in colorectal cancer and another that looked at Hodgkin lymphoma survivors and their risk of stroke. This issue also features a study on the subsequent medical risks associated with survivors of childhood central nervous system cancer; a study that added seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms to the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool to improve its accuracy; and finally, a study that looked at a polyomavirus's association with Merkel cell carcinoma.