AACR upcoming conference: Cancer Epigenetics

"The study of epigenetic mechanisms in cancer, such as DNA methylation, histone modifications, nucleosome positioning and non-coding RNA expression, has revealed a plethora of events that contribute to the neoplastic phenotype through stable changes in the expression of genes critical to transformation pathways...Therefore, improved understanding of normal epigenetic programs is necessary to better understand malignancy-specific epigenetic alterations.....numerous other clinical applications of the field being explored in areas such as cancer screening and early detection, prevention, classification for epidemiology and prognostic purposes, and predicting outcomes after standard therapy."