Toshikazu Ushijima

Molecular biology of cancer, epigenetics, gastric cancer

Dr Toshikazu Ushijima, of the National Cancer Center, Japan, explains how cancer research has evolved to integrate epigenetics, which may even be used to determine cancer risk from non-cancerous tissue samples. With IARC’s network, global data can be studied to identify relevant epigenetic alterations.

  • Country: Japan
  • Cancer type or topic: Gastric